Tarlan Tabar uses brilliant color pixels to create her works, and painting with marker
allows her to reconstruct images directly. The "Memory Disorder" is a continuation of
the artist's previous exhibition entitled "Amnesia." In the past, Tabar mostly used photos
of her family and friends, and by making collages of them created the composition of her
works; However, in the "Memory Disorder" series, more visual resources have been
added, including portraits, and also the photographs she has come upon on the
internet. These photo collections remind the artist of the events in which she has not
been present but are associated with certain concepts and images in her mind; These
mental images are distorted, altered, and vague and are more like making up memories.
Memories that, despite traces of truth, do not match reality. In this series, some images
are more fragmented and are so interwoven that it is not easy to distinguish them from
one another. The audience is also faced with more color pixels and details. In these
works, the artist looks back at the memories and, by defamiliarizing them, creates
fragmented narratives. The horizontal composition of the works reinforces the narrative
aspect and is reminiscent of scroll paintings. Tabar produces her works inspired by the
colors of Iranian paintings and Japanese-style paintings and prints. The paintings have
no specific time and place, and due to the intertwining of lines and surfaces in them, the
viewer must focus all his senses on looking to understand the works .