Daayanna Abdolali Zadeh, An Unsung Anthem, 2022

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Video, 4K, 00:11:31 Min, Color, Sound, 2022

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Daayanna Abdolali Zadeh holds a master’s degree in Architectural Engineering. She is an architect with a Tehran based research practice. Also she produces works in photography and painting. The video An unsung anthem can be described as a „search for the past“ and a cinematic journey to discover the past: „We are all the product of our past and our parents and grandparents“. In the film, she follows the footsteps of a girl she saw in a photo on a tombstone in an Armenian cemetery, seeking to answer the question of how she would deal with such a past. In this film, she follows an unknown person who lives in a house that has always aroused a strange feeling in her. Thinking about who she is leads Daayanna Abdolali Zadeh to the past of a house about which she has little information. It is a journey into parallel worlds and closed rooms, a sacred place, putting oneself somewhere else, a new story, poetical and symbolical. The camera accompanies Abdolali Zadeh in search of her roots in quiet images. The scenes form a bridge on which the artist walks, goes shopping and does everyday things and remembers or imagines. Daayanna does not want to give any answer, but by creating a space for reflection, she invites the viewer to travel and explore.

Asieh Salimian (curator)