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Mandana
Moghadam
Under:
nedanför,
nedom,
lägre
än,
inunder,täckt
av,
dold
av,
underverk,
mirakel,
fenomen,
kraftgärning,
märklig
händelse,
tecken
trollslag,trolleri,
tur,
lyckträff,
stordåd,
prestation,
under
över
alla
under
märkligt,
underligt
nog,oväntade,märklig
händelse,
mirakel,
tur…Landet:stat,
nation,
rike,
fosterland,
territorium,jordstycke,
jordplätt,
täppa,
jord,
odlingslott,
fastland,
fast
mark,
plantering,
rabatt,
trädgårdsland,
grönsaksland,
Below,
below
the,
less
than
underneath,
covered,
hidden
by,
marvel,
miracle,
phenomenon,
strange
occurrence,
character,
magic,
lucky
fluke,
deed,
wonder
of
wonders
strange,
oddly
enough
,
unexpected,
miracle,
luck...State,
nation,
kingdom,
homeland,
territory,
piece
of
ground,
piece
of
land,
plot,
land,
fast
land,
firm
soil
,allotment,
planting,
garden
beds,
vegetable
garden
…Moghaddam’s
works
do
not
allow
us
to
uselessly
hang
on
to
poeticality
of
dead
metaphors
regarding
mirrors,
or
other
nauseating
binaries
such
as
light
and
darkness,
good
and
evil,
virtue
and
vice
and
so
forth.
This
becomes
especially
apparent
when
there
exists
a
standing
sculpture
and
another
one
of
similar
shape
and
size
lies
at
its
feet
much
like
a
shadow,
yet
instead
of
being
dark
the
latter
is
of
the
same
nature
of
the
former.
These
sculptures
serve
another
purpose,
and
that
is
to
set
aside
the
rust,
which
as
we
have
observed
assists
the
stereotype
of
mirrors
as
purity.
The
iron
belts
that
gird
the
works
have
no
essence
of
delicacy.
The
nails
are
too
visible,
and
it
is
the
girding
iron
belt
that
rusts
away
slowly
and
not
the
mirrors.
The
keyholes
raise
one’s
curiosity
to
peek
into
the
other
side
of
the
mirror,
but
what
could
one
see
when
inside
mirrors
there
are
mirrors
yet
again?
That
is
to
say,
what
was
negative
inside
a
mirror
has
been
rendered
positive.
With
close
inspection
we
can
see
that
the
negative
shape
of
mirrors,
that
is
what’s
been
cut
out
from
the
bulk,
has
itself
gone
through
mirror
work
once
more.
There’s
one
work
that
depicts
the
surplus
of
mirrors
more
discernibly
than
others:
multiple
holes
have
been
cut
and
picked
up
from
the
same
piece,
and
the
punched
mass
itself
has
been
worked
on
with
mirror
pieces.
The
hole
that
is
meant
to
be a
keyhole
to
the
other
side
has
once
again
become
something
of
the
same
nature,
and
this
shows
that
going
beyond,
cutting
across
and
falling
down
are
by
no
means
feasible...
Barbad
Golshiri
*Excerpts
from
an
essay
by
Barbad
Golshiri
for
catalogue
of
exhibition
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