The Moment That It Was
Art for recording a moment is usually remembered with the art of photography, but what this exhibition is about is how to record a moment in the mind and inside each human being. Moments that bring the past to life in us with just one element. Now that the line between photography and painting has become very blurred, creating works with this theme is more common. Among the artists whose works have this approach, we can mention Gerhard Richter and, in some cases, David Hockney. In the upcoming collection, the moment is not remembered only by the presence of humans, and sometimes the way objects are arranged in reality or fantasy can also make the moment flow in our present.
Sometimes a moment is watching a train track from our childhood that reaches our dreams today.
A moment when the accumulation of clothes in a corner reminds us of a difficult or easy moment, or the wind blowing through a curtain brings an image of distant days to life with the same fragrance.
Where we are sitting on the bed to get ready for work or a party, but our clothes or even the way we sit evokes a distant or familiar situation of the same form and space around us. Sometimes you are now in sadness and joy in memory and sometimes vice versa.
Sometimes a vase of love that is a gift for today embodies the end of yesterday's love in our hearts.
Moments always remain, even those that were. Now some of them have become a role in a work.
Shahrzad Royaei
Dey 1403 (December 2024)