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Selthered Memories

Kooshk Residency Tehran 2018

The initial project I wanted to carry out in this residence consisted of collecting objects in the streets of Tehran that would allow me to create connections with the collective and individual memory of its people. However, the contact with the city, the culture and especially with its people transformed the project, and instead of trying to find objects I began to collect ideas, materials, patterns… which intuitively began to create connections with some of the most fundamental concepts of my work.

In my work I use the contraposition between the idea of shelter as a space of protection and security and the shelter-cage that ends up robbing your freedom. It is for this reason that from the beginning I felt very attracted by the lattices so present in architecture and by the symbolism and the relationship they have with the latent division that seems to exist between the public and private spheres. The interior spaces become shelters where to show a more authentic self, and like the lattices let the light through but keep the interior hidden. In the public/exterior space reality seems to fade between appearances, and the body itself becomes the shelter. Life seems to be a complex set of shadows where it is difficult to distinguish between appearance and reality.

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