Lucertia has been in this home

Sarah Pooyanfard in "Lucretia Has been in This Home" retells the legend of Lucretia from Roman history from an Iranian perspective. In this exhibition, we enter a home that narrates transnational memories through artistic research. Here, traditional Persian Ghalamkar motives (block-printed cotton textile), Pardeh-Khani rituals (A Persian dramatic form of storytelling that a story of war or epic were painted on a curtain comprised several parts called Majlis, each Majlis had its anecdote) and Qajar lithography are fused with techniques of screen printing and photography to make a trans-historical quality.

The Journalistic representation of a traumatic experience within adorned formats is reminiscent of contemporary human conditions on social media. This simultaneity refers to banality, closeness, and presence of assault regardless of its history and geography.

Raika Khorshidian