{"id":2924,"date":"2014-08-17T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatwesee.ch\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2016-07-21T14:59:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:59:42","slug":"being-without-attendance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/being-without-attendance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Being without Attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mahroo Movahedi<\/strong>
\nBeing without Attendance<\/em>
\n2014 \/ photographs<\/p>\n

Photographs in collaboration with fellow students from Masters in Transdisciplinary Studies,\u00a0<\/span>by: Brandon Farnsworth, Denis Handschin, Marc Latzel<\/p>\n

\"Being<\/a><\/p>\n

My goal is to create new sorts of presence. Due to the difficulties in obtaining a visa, I could not join the rest of the group in Hong Kong. I then decided that the next best thing would be to have traces of my life go in my stead. Therefore, I gave my\u00a0<\/span>sabzeh<\/i><\/span>, as well as my childhood shoes (carried from Iran to Zurich) to one of the students, who then performed and documented with photographs two separate projects of mine in Hong Kong.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The first of these projects involved my childhood shoes being photographed in different situations all over Hong Kong. The shoes act as a placeholder for my physical body. The photographs taken of them try and show the possibility of an impossibility, namely the concept of being without presence. I suggest an in-between space, not real, not ideal, but possible. With this work, I hope that the shoes can create a personal experience, even without being there in person. Furthermore, they are also the symbol of an imagined, fluid space, ebbing between the real and the surreal.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

My shoes visualize what these stories are unlocks a further aspect of my work, which has the rich tapestry of our human journey at its core.<\/span><\/p>\n