- Title
- Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow
- Date Made
- 2012
- Medium
- Two-channel video projection with sound, looped; .1) Oil, acrylic and pencil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Duration: 00:17:00
.1) 82 11/16 × 62 3/16 in. (210.03 × 157.96 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2014.132
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial Notes
This pair of videos is composed of short clips carefully selected from dozens of Iranian films produced
mainly in the two decades preceding the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The films belong to a popular genre of
cabaret cinema that captures in black-and-white the teeming nightlife of southern Tehran while relying
upon universal filmic story lines and characters, such as the innocent girl from the country who comes to
the big city to become a dancer. Projected on opposing walls, on one of which hangs a canvas painted to
resemble a theatrical curtain, the videos re-create a night club setting in which the viewer, seated in the
middle, becomes part of the cabaret.
Trained in Vienna at the Academy of Decorative Arts, Farideh Lashai was a multidimensional artist who
worked in painting, sculpture, and video, some of which incorporate her own paintings and animation. She
was also a published poet and novelist, and is known for translating Bertolt Brecht’s work into Persian.
Indeed, literary themes and storytelling are an integral part of her last works, including this one.
