Morvarid K

Through the manipulation of photographic material, Morvarid K.’s work questions our relation to the world, the transformative memory, and the in-between. The photographic medium is the starting point, it anchors her work in reality, while the superposition and transformation techniques bring the additional expressions photography couldn’t capture. The print becomes a material, a stage in the creative process, before any gesture or performative experience complete the work. The definition Laurent Derobert, existential mathematician, gives to the word “lack” sits at the heart of her artistic practice: infinite presence of absence.

This Too Shall Pass – Chapter 1, Temps 1.4

Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308gr paper, ballpoint pen
100 x 140 cm
39 3/8 x 55 1/8 in
2023
Unique piece

Overwhelmed by the images of the fires in Australia in 2019 and 2020, Morvarid K feels the compelling need to go there and see the static, silent, empty landscapes, to witness the overwhelming absence of life, to confront what remains despite the devastation. Begun in Australia in 2020 and continued in France in 2021 and 2022, the “This too shall pass” series questions the complexity of human perception, the adjustment mechanism that enables us to tame the brutal, the destructive, to make Thanatos bearable.