Eden, by Anush Hamzehian and Vittorio Mortarotti
The Blueproject Foundation presents “Eden”, the new exhibition in Sala Project by the artists Anush Hamzehian and Vittorio Mortarotti that will be open from February 05th until March 13th 2016.
“Eden” is an exhibition about the borders and, more specifically, about the border between Iran and Armenia; about Iranian refugees. The project presents ten photos and several audiovisual works.
Anush Hamzehian, son of an Iranian refugee, was conceived in 1979, the year of the Islamic Revolution, in Tabriz during the last journey his parents took to Iran. In March 2014, the two artists decided to get the closest they could to the country where everything started but where Anush couldn’t go. They stayed one month on the narrow border between Armenia and Iran. For the first time, the two of them could see Iran everyday, its mountains, the Aras River and a road that climbs up to the city of Tabriz.
Hamzehian and Mortarotti decided to investigate the claustrophobia and violence of this border town as a metaphor of all frontiers through the story of people crossing the border to reach some freedom, of prostitutes working in night brothels along the road to Iran, of Iranian trucks bringing oil to Russia, of miners working in Molibdene mines (which are used in weapons’ factories), of Russian soldiers who still defend the Armenian borders, of teenagers who still dream.
