 mΛmı, 2008 The exterior projection of mΛmı shows eight young women in Iranian school uniforms standing in a row before a blue backdrop. They slowly close their eyes and dissolve into the blue of the curtain. The rocking chair in the interior is a play on an unadorned "throne," and the television set shows a 6-year-old professional mourner weeping bitterly. mΛmı reflects the role of the media, television in particular; how it has in general, and in a motherly way, substituted religion and particularly the Pastor, and how religion, once considered as "the opium of the masses", has become the opium of a religious media-based state and its masses. The Persian word for curtain, pardé, carries equally the meanings of screen, hymen and shroud. The blue pardé refers both to the blue box technique and various mise-en-scènes used in Iran's political visual system of representation. The installation mΛmı is oriented towards Mecca. Barbad Golshiri, * 1982 in Tehran (IR), lives and works in Tehran (IR)  Barbad Golshiri, mΛmı, 2008 video installation (colour, sound), mixed media dimensions and runtime variable From 'Odyssey-i project' courtesy Barbad Golshiri produced in cooperation with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
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