Fatemeh Baigmoradi

“It’s hard to kill” project has been informed by this fact that my parents just have a few photos that present them in youth ages, before the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and I’ve been so obsessed with those photos that we do not have as long as I’ve remembered....
“It’s hard to kill” project has been informed by this fact that my parents just have a few photos that present them in youth ages, before the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and I’ve been so obsessed with those photos that we do not have as long as I’ve remembered. Iran's revolution began with democracy movement and ended with the establishment of the world's first Islamic state. Before the Iranian Revolution, opposition groups tended to fall into 3 major categories: constitutionalist,including National Front, Marxist, and Islamist. All those 3 opposition participated in the 1979 Revolution but gradually after victory, the Islamist party that had the majority, started to put other parties away, by slandering and condemning then arresting, forcing to exile and/or execution. My father had been a member in National Front party. Like all over the world, parties’ members occasionally took photos in their meetings and parties after meetings. A few years after the Revolution, he burned a lot of photos that referenced his membership in that political party. My father and others burned these photos due to the risk of being arrested. Of course the act of disappearing photos was emotional and not that much logical in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. But it shows the fear and anxiety that the society experienced. I use different people’s family photos to picture my Imagery of that occurrence. My work are based on a true story that happened over and over for different nations, after social revolutions. The halo around some of the individuals in the photos, caused by burning, brings into attention a few important questions about memory, history and their representation: How does self- censorship affect our memory and personal history? Is the halo a sign of loss of history or a sign of bringing back the aura to the photographs? Does it omit the individual from history, or add non-representational characteristics to that? This project includes photos, sculptures, and videos.
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