TEHRAN FEBRUARY 2020
‘As long as I can loop back it has been Enghelab : thrown into Revolution as a child 43 years ago, it conditioned life choices deep emotions that led explorations into memory, displacement, identity.
The panel project surfaced as I researched family documents and put my hands on an original Newsweek copy from January 1979.The main story ran a reportage on the ongoing street violence with photographs by Magnum war photographer Abbas. A specific yellowed double-paged image stuck and I went to transform into a 444cm work an canvas. I met Abbas in Paris in April 2018 to show him the work. He sadly passed away a week later - on April 27 th 2018. The Revolution Panel was primarily confidentially and controversially unveiled in Tehran's Villa Sufia Showrooom on the Revolutions 40th birthday.’
Firouz FarmanFarmaian
REVOLUTION
