The Interior: Iran

20 September 2013

Babak Kazemi, From the series The Exit of Shirin and Farhad

The Interior: derived from a cinema and screen-writing term which is used to separate outdoor and indoor scenes, the notion may be read in terms of specialised knowledge about a particular situation that is revealed when we explore a deeper connection with a personal or social situation. The emphasis is also on the double life people lead as a result of societal pressure from local or international forces, which render their lives a hidden story, a personal diary of events. The real challenge perhaps lies in the paradoxical compulsions of a public outlook and personal belief living as a part of society yet being alone in ones discovery of the self.

With support from Mohsen-Gallery

With participation from Pix-Team_Lucida

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