A multimedia exhibition including painting, photography, video art, installation, music, perfomance and enviromental art displaying the works of contemporary Iranian artists and architects.
This contribution was an installatoin titled "The Yellow Silence of Nargess" which consisted of a cubic room in the scale of 3x3x3 metres filled with 50 plaster sculptures of life size crows painted in yellow with black lines on the top covering their entire bodies. The crows were some placed on the floor and some on top of a tall roughly cut wooden table also painted the same colour as the crows. At one end of the table there hung a musical door-tubular which was being fanned by a rotating electric fan, also painted the same colour producing a sporadic musical tune in the space. Hence the entire interior of the cubic room (floor, walls and ceiling) and the installed objects were all camouflaged with the same colour. Florescent lighting was used to enhance the yellow effect of the installation radiating out in to a dark purple space outside the cubic room. In the dark purple space an old chair painted dark purple (again camouflaged) was placed at a distance from the yellow room on top of which an old diary belonging to Nargess (the character of my story) was tied by means of a length of ribbon entailing Nargess's story which reads as follows:
I, Nargess, looking beyond my enchanted window, awaited a century to be rescued on one yellow day when all will come to the fore.
Nargess, under the spell of the Divv* for a century, when rescued, the spell unravels and she, whose mortal self should have ended long ago, now disperses and all that is left is the yellow silence of Nargess in the garden.
* Divv is the grotesque horned headed character in the ancient Iranian literature symbolizing the demon.
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