ART Habens
Mehdi Farajpour
As I mentioned earlier, Persian poetry is my main source of inspiration in most of my creations including shows, performances, videos and visual art works. YET UNTITLED, is also both visually and conceptually inspired by Persian poetry in general and by several Persian poets in particular( Omar Khayyam, Molavi, Hafiz,…). I just tried to capture and mixe their views on the univers in a contemporary context. I also borrowed some of the major elements of their poems in YET UNTITLED. For example the music that is indeed a live sound captation of my own breathing rhythm while performing with a tiny microphone installed on my jacket. I transfer the sound of my breath to a computer and with the help of a software and sound mixing desk, I create a music in front of the audience( that is of course different each time that I perform). Or Clay is another word / element borrowed from Omar Khayyam who has very often used in is poems. For him, the clay is symbol of the earth as well as the human.
About SHADOW- as the main element in YET UNTITLED- I have to add an explanation as follows. The Shadow has a powerful meaning in Persian poetry. It is the sign of existence because whatever exist has a shadow, otherwise it does not really exist( from materialistic point of view). At the same time, in Indian beliefs, shadow is considered as the illusion of reality. Our world is a Maya, meaning the shadow or the illusion of another world( which is the real world) and we can’ t see it. This subject are all my inspiration sources to work with.
At the end, I would like to use this opportunity and point out a cultural difference that I discovered while creating and performing YET UNTITLED. It is again about the shadow( as a
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