HASHTI It’s a playable installation that people can touch and play with them according to the instructions. Each octagon made from the mat and some of them have a photo pattern of some famous battlefield in the world. The tiles are the symbol of lands and the abstraction photos on some tiles are the symbol of an extinct documentary. The abstraction photos point to extinct documentary photography and also it shows manipulated photos are much acceptable by galleries. The geometry is a metaphor for logic and the octagon shapes are a symbol of communication places in middle eastern houses. This is a metaphor for modern battle, I a, trying to make some questions for the viewers, and I’d like to remind them what we lost by technologies. "Hashti" exhibits mixing performance, sculpture, and interactive installation with touches of Kurd and Persian was cited by some as an "a powerful and disturbing installation that poses urgent questions of our time and pushes the spectator i...
Tangible things Tangible things invite readers to look closely at the world around them—ordinary objects like the food on their plate, and abstract elements like safety pins attached to leaves. Through human-centric ideas, we assign meaning to everything. In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history—with humans at the center of it. This work suggests that almost any material object, when examined closely, can serve as a link between the present and the past. As meaning-making machines, humans constantly reinterpret the world around them. In this collection—like in some of my other works—I attempt to translate photographs into sculpture, preserving documentation through memory. I aim to create a historical memory of forgotten regions. I'm especially interested in how images are translated across cultures. How much does the meaning of documentary photography change over time, especially when shifting focus from the Middle East to the United Stat...