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Pouya Afshar
Mourn Baby Mourn2017

Not on view
Installation view of a large white cylindrical enclosure in a darkened gallery, with animated video projections on its curved outer walls showing figures, cartoon imagery, and silhouettes
Video installation with a circular tent-like fabric structure in a darkened gallery. Animated imagery projected onto the exterior shows a stylized horse with a green blanket and red mane. Through an opening, a large-scale black-and-white animation of an abstracted face is visible inside. A red panel with a silhouetted figure appears at left.
Multi-channel video installation in a circular gallery with wooden floors; two projected animated films on curved white walls, each featuring bold graphic imagery in red, black, and gray: left screen shows a silhouetted figure beside an oversized illustrated hand holding a document; right screen shows a close-up of a face squeezed between two large hands; a cluster of projectors hangs from a central ceiling pole.
Artist or Maker
Pouya Afshar
Iran, born 1984, active United States
Title
Mourn Baby Mourn
Date Made
2017
Medium
Video installation
Dimensions
Duration: 6 minutes, 37 seconds
Credit Line
Gift of the artist
Accession Number
M.2019.35
Classification
Time Based Media
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
Selected Bibliography
  • Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2018.