An exhibition of Ephemeral Art (Art of Demolition) in which 4 participant artists ventured out on conceptualizing a house due for demolition. The house was situated in the city of Tehran in the vicinity of Hosseinieh Ershad Mosque. A new high-rise was due to replace the old abandoned house. My work was an installation of a number of sculpted crows on top of used fruit crates. Maziar Bahari, a documentary film maker, made a film of the whole process of turning the house into a workshop for the participant artists which eventually served as the actual exhibition venue.
A forum organized by Ashkal Alwan, an association for the Plastic Arts, which considers it as a platform for critical reassessment of the cultural state within the Middle East region hoping to highlight commonalities and create links for future collaborations. Artists, thinkers, writers and intellectuals have been invited to contribute.
My contribution was an installation of some 200 crows installed inside of an old building called the "Zico House" and some were, too, on top of a bus stop just outside the very building. I was suprised to know that there are no crows in Beirut!
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