"TEHERAN, JUNE 2009"

The installation "TEHERAN, JUNE 2009"
video on phone with arabic keyboard , video still embroidered on handkerchief, 2009

I choosed a “youtube” video, where an anonymous citizen becomes a “journalist” because it's a very interesting way to have news, in contrast with all the law of the main agency.

From this material I create an installations where the viewer can think about the situation and where the question of “not here but now” will be the first input. I show the video on the phone, object that every person has, as if the spectator filmed the situation.

I want to project the video and "re-sew it" in a way where the viewer becomes aware, conscience, of what he sees. He should know that what he sees really exists and should be dissuaded from the daily indifference. I embroidered the video still on old handkerchief, because of the sense of this object: collect the tears, dries and console.

detail of the phone
the "youtube video" IRANIAN POLIS BEATING UP PEOPLE IN THEIR HOUSES, IRAN, TEHRAN 13 JUNE

details of video still embroidered on handkerchief