IT IS NOT PAINTERLY, TO LET THE SUN DROWN IN SEA
2025
Multimedia installation: three-dimensional light painting, glass sculptures, altered overhead projectors, photographs
Neda Saeedi's exhibition at Bavan Gallery presents an installation of photographs, glass sculptures and collaged glass fragments. Projected light transforms the gallery wall into a living canvas - abstract sunrises and sunsets that fracture and reform with each viewer's passing, their colors fading like dying light.
In another space, the installation "War Horses which run swiftly" unfolds (a parallel version currently showing in Berlin).
The Berlin exhibition reveals a haunting carousel: wooden shipping crates stand where horses should be, fragmented mother-and-child sculptures take riders' places - each rotation a silent memorial to history's forgotten war dead. This mechanical requiem turns slowly, its gears grinding out another generation of shattered figures.
In Tehran, the same story is told in glass. More fragile. More luminous. Mutilated forms lie cradled in packing crates, adrift in seas of colored light. Above them, projected skies ripple as visitors pass through - sometimes casting shadows across imagined landscapes, sometimes pausing, haloed in transient light.
Through all these artificial dawns and dusks, only the broken bodies remain: slender fragments of memory marking wars without end, and sorrows that renew themselves with every coming day.
of a exhibition review by Helia Heiat
The title of the exhibition has been borrowed from a Poem under the same name by Farkhondeh Shahroudi from 2022
Photos © Omid Shalmani/Bavan Gallery
