MEMENTO MORI
SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION
The title “Memento Mori” (Latin: “remember that you have to die”) acts not as a reference to the Christian theory and practice of reflection on mortality, but rather a rereading of “Carpe Diem” (Latin: “seize the day”). The soil pyramids bear an allusion to life and death, and at the same time embody a small drawing imprint in the room showing the engulfment of life in a void which itself works as a bridge between the drawings on paper and the four-poster bed.
Conceiving the installation, the two artists(Mina Mohseni-Amirnasr Kamgooyan) simultaneously started to work on a series of collaborative drawings “like a game of tic-tac-toe” with one’s work complemented by the other in turns. Although the two have different focuses and practices in their artistic work, they share an interest in a wide variety of subject matters and living together discuss diverse issues every day, as reflected in their collaborative drawings which show evolutions of ideas, techniques, and streams of thought.
SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION
The title “Memento Mori” (Latin: “remember that you have to die”) acts not as a reference to the Christian theory and practice of reflection on mortality, but rather a rereading of “Carpe Diem” (Latin: “seize the day”). The soil pyramids bear an allusion to life and death, and at the same time embody a small drawing imprint in the room showing the engulfment of life in a void which itself works as a bridge between the drawings on paper and the four-poster bed.
Conceiving the installation, the two artists(Mina Mohseni-Amirnasr Kamgooyan) simultaneously started to work on a series of collaborative drawings “like a game of tic-tac-toe” with one’s work complemented by the other in turns. Although the two have different focuses and practices in their artistic work, they share an interest in a wide variety of subject matters and living together discuss diverse issues every day, as reflected in their collaborative drawings which show evolutions of ideas, techniques, and streams of thought.
