Pegah Pasalar 

Going South جانب جنوب 2025

From the ongoing project Exodus Pathology

 

Photography, cement bricks, table top fan, 

Frames 22.28

installation with variable dimensions

 

 

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South is a space                                                                                               South is a place

South is an organ                                                               South is a bless

South is a fish                                                 South is a dream

South is a compass     South is a relief

           South is a toward    

          South is my maman

    The South remains, a prosperous ruin

 

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In non-fiction cinema, hours of directionless and wishful framings are stored on memory cards and then structured into three-act narratives by moving “post-its” around. This process is called a paper cut.  

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Between memory and document, and the documentation of a document, the lower frequencies of ancestral inheritance move the bodies that are buried and float in ceaseless currents to remind us that structural coherence is only a fantasy.