{"id":11469,"date":"2025-11-17T19:50:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poushehprojects.com\/portfolio\/encircle-the-apple-or-shadowlessness\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:47:25","slug":"encircle-the-apple-or-shadowlessness","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/poushehprojects.com\/en\/portfolio\/encircle-the-apple-or-shadowlessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Encircle the Apple, or Shadowlessness"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11469\" class=\"elementor elementor-11469 elementor-11450\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f9d7740 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f9d7740\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f42247a elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"f42247a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_ba_line cz_title_pos_inline tac\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p><span style=\"color: #666666;\">This project is organized in collaboration with Dastan Gallery and Emrooz Gallery.<\/span><\/p><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Encircle the Apple, or Shadowlessness <\/strong><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-family: Doran; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 500;\">Curator: <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Doran; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 500;\"><strong>Aydin Khankeshipour<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div><div class=\"cz_title_line cz_line_after_title\"><span>_<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c63104 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"9c63104\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline tac\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #666666;\">This volume has been published with the financial and moral support of Ms. <strong>Ghazal Zare<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f15257 elementor-widget elementor-widget-embedpress_pdf\" data-id=\"8f15257\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"embedpress_pdf.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t    <div class=\"embedpress-document-embed ep-doc-0bd83eeb68c4f631283871aa6df5ddbd ose-document emebedpress-unit-percent \" data-thememode=\"default\" data-customcolor=\"\" data-toolbar=\"yes\" data-toolbar-position=\"top\" data-open=\"no\" data-presentation-mode=\"yes\" data-download=\"yes\" data-copy=\"yes\" data-add-image=\"yes\" data-rotate=\"yes\" data-details=\"yes\" data-id=\"embedpress-pdf-8f15257\" data-selection-tool=\"0\" data-scrolling=\"0\" data-spreads=\"-1\" style=\" max-width:100%; 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Within this approach, the artist deliberately avoids saturating the space with painterly gestures or attitudes. The space and atmosphere of the work are thus formed entirely through an emphasis on the object.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f74e0f elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"5f74e0f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p>The object may generate an abstract image or give rise to a figurative narrative. Alternatively, this emphasis may expand to the point that the object occupies the entire surface of the page, such that nothing other than the object remains visible. What unites these works is the transmission of meaning in the absence of negative space\u2014an absence that may, in fact, exert a stronger presence than presence itself.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bf3bd99 elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"bf3bd99\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Thus, we are rarely confronted with a dispersed composition. The image is not segmented or spatially divided; its visual forces are not distributed, as the page contains only a single dominant element. One might say that the image appears as though it were part of a larger whole, while at the same time fully sustaining the quality of an autonomous, complete artwork.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f4eeb04 elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"f4eeb04\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p>Historically, traces of this type of configuration can be found in the works of Bahman Mohassess, Manouchehr Yektai, Parvaneh Etemadi, Bijan Saffari, and Leyly Matin-Daftary. Within the broader trajectory of Iranian art, this configuration appears to be more recent than other approaches and has been adopted by a greater number of artists of the present generation. Among the second and especially the third generations of Iranian artists, however, such an approach is comparatively rare.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c554dca elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"c554dca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p>The structure of art education, the heavy influence of modernist ideology, and the limitations imposed on interaction with the international art world have undoubtedly shaped the formal configurations of those generations. Similarly, the present generation\u2019s inclination toward breaking established conventions of image-making may help explain this choice of configuration.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9149a28 elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"9149a28\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p>This statement does not seek to privilege one approach over another; rather, it aims to identify possible reasons for the concentration of this particular attitude. The works presented here differ fundamentally from the aesthetics associated with artists such as Ahmad Amin Nazar, Farshid Maleki, Nikzad Nojoumi, Ali Nassir, and Karim Nasr, whose approach relies on activating and dispersing painterly gestures across the surface.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43a7d01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"43a7d01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p>Undoubtedly, other artists have produced works with similar characteristics. However, the eleven artists selected for this project consistently demonstrate this strategy throughout much of their practice. The formal structures found in works by Amin Bagheri, Jaleh Talebpour, Sara Abbasian, Arash Mirhadi, Maryam Espandi, Gita Davari, the portrait works of Y.Z. Kami, and certain works by Fereydoun Ave and Farhad Gavzan, among others, reveal a comparable tendency.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-40187bc elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"40187bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><h3><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span>Event: Search<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd73683 elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"bd73683\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p>Search is not a one-time event. It unfolds within time, and time provides the ground for its realization. Time allows for the recognition of the greatest number of possibilities. Possibilities are individuals. Possibilities are what individuals create. Therefore, no immediate, definitive, or rapid result can be expected from this event.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb8f82f elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"bb8f82f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p>Search will attempt not only to introduce, but also to assemble. To assemble is to classify. The classification of subtrends within contemporary art is the missing link in all that we possess. Our way of living, our decisions, our mistakes, our thoughts, and our historical education have lacked systematic classification. Despite our sustained attention to Western art\u2014past and present\u2014we have failed to learn how individuals stand on one another\u2019s shoulders, build upon inherited legacies, respect them, critique them, and expand them.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28f4b7a elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"28f4b7a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Subtrends, when placed alongside one another, form dominant tendencies\u2014something this geography has rarely witnessed. From a distance, contemporary art may appear fragmented, contradictory, inconsistent, excessively individualistic, and lacking direction. Yet, upon closer examination, this is not entirely the case. Individuals and their productions are connected; they are simply unaware of, or unwilling to acknowledge, their connections to others. Categories may be small, but they are not insignificant.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79e1bf7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"79e1bf7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p>Search is shaped through sustained observation, dialogue, the refusal to advance through the negation of others, a heterogeneous perspective, and an awareness of the enduring necessity of inquiry and discovery.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d5aa01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"1d5aa01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p>It must be emphasized that what is largely absent from cultural policy, gallery preferences, collectors\u2019 selections, curatorial frameworks, and artistic presentation is an awareness of classification and of distinctive characteristics. The reluctance to adopt a clear strategy\u2014particularly in terms of classification\u2014often stems from the fear of losing potential buyers.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-97148f4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"97148f4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p>Under such conditions, galleries adopt a hypermarket-like policy, presenting everything available with maximum diversity, regardless of identity, conceptual grounding, or even formal roots. As a result, artists and their works\u2014whether emerging from profound artistic inquiry or from superficial imitation, whether driven by genuine urgency or by the pursuit of artificial positioning\u2014are displayed side by side, priced, and installed on the same walls.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-825e79c elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"825e79c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p>Meanwhile, the necessity of identifying subtrends in order to meaningfully situate artists of differing orientations becomes increasingly urgent.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d69f6d4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"d69f6d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Search therefore seeks to identify and ultimately classify these tendencies\u2014not through superficial formal resemblance, but through careful analysis of the constituent elements of images, including the intellectual, philosophical, and even educational sources of their formation.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cb33c32 elementor-widget elementor-widget-cz_title\" data-id=\"cb33c32\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cz_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cz_title clr cz_title_pos_inline\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><p>It goes without saying that understanding one\u2019s own characteristics in relation to others is essential to approaching reality more closely. 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