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The group exhibition “Tehran,” organized in collaboration with several galleries, will open on Friday, July 18 at Artibition Gallery. This exhibition has been shaped in remembrance of those lost in this war and as a tribute to the significance of the capital.

The French philosopher Blaise Pascal considered it absurd and incomprehensible that his life would end simply because two rulers on opposite sides of a river were at odds. Now, if we find ourselves in the hypothetical situation that Pascal described, the meaning of the river suddenly becomes associated with insecurity, whereas until a moment before that situation, the river had been synonymous with beauty and recreation.Each word and element, in specific time contexts, brings to life a concept that is more or less different from what we normally remember, and sometimes the difference in concepts is so different from our previous experience that a new world is presented to us.Those twelve ambiguous days have created a strange encounter with the surroundings for many of us, even those who remembered scenes from past wars, because the invasion of the homeland, no matter how many times it is experienced, is still accompanied by astonishment and bewilderment.

What we know about the poet is not just poetry, but the artist's ongoing consciousness that takes on another life in every artistic and biological context. The intertwining of arts by artists is not a new phenomenon, but the artist's distinctive footprint in the works of every artistic field reminds us of a common boundary between her poetry and painting.The word, as the birthplace of thought, is a bridge for the birth of arts, and the image and color in painting are also created from this birthplace. This common boundary between the arts of an artist can be read as follows, in the words of Martin Heidegger:"All art is poetry in its essence, and every poem has a breadth as wide as the length of the language." Therefore, every painting by a poet can only be recognized through familiarity with their poetry. Encountering the works in this exhibition contains poetry and a passion for the poets' unspoken layers."