Lohrasb Bayaat

The next work is called "Friday." This work tries to visualize the tension between eroticism and the suggestive mind of the veiled object or person. 

The next series of photos is called "Swan Rider." By the fusion of the swan with the veiled woman, both heavily loaded with meanings and stories, I try to surpass familiar boundaries by an ironic approach. 

The drawings of the serious signs pursue this irony. Here the international modern language of science pictograms used to show traditional rules of gender behavior in the Islamic world. The next work, "Funeral Service," is a group of office chairs, in this work, occupying a room. They are covered with ceremonial Shiitic mourning textiles imprinted with ornaments and calligraphy. Poems in honor of the Shiite martyr, Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. 

By covering office chairs, symbols of modern bureaucracy, with these traditional cloths, originating in the Shiite culture of martyrdom and mourning, an image of paradoxical simultaneity is induced. Detention of the installation is the contrast with the religious ecstasy and the bureaucratic everyday structures.

In the next work, "Written Room," I used calligraphy again, which has a sacral and ritual character in the Oriental world. In this work, the Persian script is turned into an ornament. It is illegible for Western visitors, but also if one has a command of Persian language, the characters prove to be nothing more than word fragments, which are not the subject of a linear order. For me, the beauty lies in the absence of meaning. Memory of my mother tongue, which has lost it's function for me living in exile.