The graveyard is not always the endpoint of broken bodies, but a place where lost memories, tongues and the sounds of silence begin to be recovered. The cemetery always contains a hidden cry – one that does not necessarily emerge from bones, but from the depths of history, a cry that is being wiped out all around now and lost to the industry and bureaucracy of death. A crying engraved on old stones, which warns us to remember of everything that has been forgotten... (a part of the statement) 

The current collection includes a video art, printed curtains and glass graves and is the result of a long-term research on the femininity of death in a society where patriarchal systems exert a tangible hegemony.  

Koohdasht (Lorestan Province) was chosen as starting point of enquiry according to the importance of results wielded by a number of cities and carried out on the basis of social history parameters and an analysis of theoretical data in the field of humanities. 

Koohdasht presented the face of a city with a social structure of tribes and nomads, still struggling with collective conflicts from the past. Historically here, warrior females were found on the first line of the battlefield, fighting and standing to the end, killed even equally to men. Graves are adorned with high statues bearing feminine markings, testifying to the braveness of women. Female mourners morn the dead in local ceremonies called Mouyeh (a mourning ceremony particular to Zagros residents).
 

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No 840,  Next to the Abivard St. between Valiasr Crossroad and Fedosi Sq. Enghelab Ave.