Yousef Abad

Installation view, Tel Aviv museum of Art, 2014

Solo exhibition at Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, 2014

Five channel video installation

Yousef Abad was dedicated to the exploration of the relationship between memories, space and movement: I asked someone who visited Tehran to hold a camera while I was remotely directing her through my childhood neighborhood. This walk down memory lane allowed me to virtually visit Tehran and overcome the existing geopolitical borders. It also generated a new experience of the public sphere in which I stroll freely around my own ‘forbidden’ city based on my intuition, but at the same time felt restricted and disoriented due to my removed location and the subjectivity of memory.

41st street
HD, 10 minutes segment of 37”

Yousef Abad2 channel HD video ,13:50 minutes

Yousef Abad
Two channel HD, 16 minutes

In summer breaks, my father used to take me to Golriz cinema which was located just cross the street from his shop. He used to seat me at the last row and ask the projection guy at the back to watch over so I won't leave the theater till the movie is over. It was usually a mid day screening of some children's cartoon. I asked A to go to that cinema, sit in the last raw and film me the screened movie.

Golris Cinema
HD, 13 minutes

I asked A to go to the elementary school we both went to in Yousef Abad and film the yard. It happened that she went at the first school day.

Sajadieh School
HD, 10:25 mintes

Yousef Abad

Solo exhibition at Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, 2014

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