A Common Lack

On March 8, 2023, in a public studio located in the northern heights of Tehran, in a space empty of objects in a hall designed by Kamran Diba in Jamshidieh Park, for a whole day from sunrise to sunset, Fati, Hasti, and I lived together in the space, arranged, cooked, talked, knitted, built, played, and collected and returned to our homes.

The product of this three-person installation process in the space became into a video. A video with 3 episodes that each of us edited according to our own narrative.

Beyond any common definition, “A Common Lack” evokes this infographic.
The manifestation of three empty corners, in the right angle and right location, resulted in the shape in between, which would not have appeared without the lack in each piece.

The meeting between Hasti, Fatemeh, and Mina in “The Atelier”, the time spent together, and the mark they left behind naturally, consumed the field and gave this back.
A proportionality between the void of these three was revealed, different from all other possibilities and unique to this experience only.

Curator: Alireza Mohammadi