Curator: Shirin Gharavisky

As in the past there used to be a discussion about the mutual impact of the model and painting on each other, invariably from a particular period on a debate between photograph and painting and the correspondence between their elements was born. In pop culture, the word photogenic refers to a subject with glowing face when photographed. Though originally, it refers to anything provoking the inclination to be sketched or registered.
The recent exhibition, by such standards, encompasses examples of mutual and multi-aspect impacts resulting from artists’ use of painting media, photography and film. These effects reflect in the artists’ view from one part and in their register, style, and technics from another; in a way that the penetrations of the flows and even basic notions of other media are clearly seen in the theme, material and the artists works’ discourse.
Over the course of collecting such art works, some artists on one hand, have recounted their contemporary subjects as a witness/narrator, and some on the other hand, through diverse technics and working on photographed picture or realizing the performance and recording the event, have retouched the events and consequently created the narrative. As such, we are dealing with works that performance technics aside, prevail some resemblance between present, past and the deed of the painting. To study these perceptual procedures, represents neither a substitute for history, nor a comparison of eras, but could be to make do with the present time and confront with actual circumstances.