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Water and Persian Rugs # 524
2004
Jalal Sepehr
Photography
70 x 100 cm
C-Print
In this series comprising variations on a single theme, each photograph features a traditional Persian carpet and the sea. The rug is shown floating on the surface of the water, unrolled on the seabed, standing upright like a mast or, as here, transformed into a bridge stretching towards the horizon. References and symbols give rise to countless ways of reading this motif from Persian mythology lightheartedly revisited by Jalal Sepehr. Enough perhaps to invent 1001 interpretations of these floating carpets!
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
In this series comprising variations on a single theme, each photograph features a traditional Persian carpet and the sea. The rug is shown floating on the surface of the water, unrolled on the seabed, standing upright like a mast or, as here, transformed into a bridge stretching towards the horizon. References and symbols give rise to countless ways of reading this motif from Persian mythology lightheartedly revisited by Jalal Sepehr. Enough perhaps to invent 1001 interpretations of these floating carpets!
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Jalal Sepehr
Iran
Born in 1968
Born in Teheran, Iran.
Lives and works in Teheran.
Jalal Sepehr, a self-taught photographer, began using a camera in 1994 when he had been living in Japan for three years. On his return to Teheran in 1996, he and Darushi Kiani mounted the advertising agency Fanoos Studio, followed by the website Fanoos Photo that displays and promotes contemporary Iranian photography.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Lives and works in Teheran.
Jalal Sepehr, a self-taught photographer, began using a camera in 1994 when he had been living in Japan for three years. On his return to Teheran in 1996, he and Darushi Kiani mounted the advertising agency Fanoos Studio, followed by the website Fanoos Photo that displays and promotes contemporary Iranian photography.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Artwork of
Jalal Sepehr
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