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Mojtaba
Tajik
As
If
Life
There
are
different
types
of
boxes;
they
generally
have
lids
and
are
used
for
packaging,
storage
or
transportation
of
something.
Boxes
have
walls
that
divide
the
interior
and
keep
the
objects
inside
safe
from
dispersion,
loss
or
possibility
of
damage.
Some
have
locks
and
sometimes
a
simple
lid
completes
their
application.
Rarely,
they
can
be
useful
without
a
lid.
Form
and
the
way
their
lids
open
or
close
depends
on
their
function;
a
suitcase,
a
letter
box,
personal
wardrobe,
files’
drawer,
a
card
index
file
and
so
on.
Almost
all
of
us
have
and
continue
to
use
all
kinds
of
boxes.
Mojtaba
Tajik,
like
most
of
us
have
also
dealt
with
many
boxes,
but
perhaps,
he
has
contemplated
about
these
boxes
more
than
any
of
us
ever
have,
and
the
result
is
the
many
paintings
he
has
produced,
each
focusing
on
different
aspects
of
boxes.
From
his
first
collection
of
boxes
that
depict
objects
they
contain
and
their
sometimes-surreal
narratives,
to
shoes
and
Shoeboxes
that
put
before
us
notions
of
human
relations
with
their
cheerful
and
colorful
combinations,
even
the
Billboards
series
that
in
my
opinion
is
one
of
Tajik’s
most
successful
series
which
has
a
referential
narrative
depicting
in
large
frames
what
controls
our
society,
and
in
fact
portrays
an
empty
and
ugly
interiors
of
boxes
that
are
not
to
be
seen.
In
all
these
works,
concerns
to
contemplate
on
the
meaning
of a
box
are
visible.
In
Sealed
series,
Mojtaba
Tajik
depicts
a
collection
of
boxes
above
and
beside
one
another;
suitcases
stacked
on
top
of
each
other,
a
row
of
letter
boxes,
locked
metal
cabinets,
metallic
boxes
on
top
of
each
other,
card
index
files
and
such.
In
most
of
these
paintings
we
are
exposed
to
solid
composition,
neatly
arranged
rows
of
boxes
and
cases
depicted
in
cold
and
vintage
colours
with
a
careful
painterly
touch.
In
rare
cases,
some
of
these
boxes
appear
colourful
despite
being
obviously
old,
and
the
colorfulness
is
there
only
to
beatify
them.
Opposite,
there
are
simple
and
rusted
boxes
that
in
first
sight
seem
abstract,
geometric
and
minimalistic.
In
the
image
of
the
card
index
file
we
are
exposed
to
left
open
drawers
and
in
another
painting
to
the
image
of
old
letterboxes
with
open
and
deformed
doors
containing
in
them
abandoned
letters
that
someone
someday
may
have
waited
to
receive
but
now
they
have
been
left
behind
for
years.
Each
of
the
multiple
levels
of
these
cases,
drawers,
closets,
suitcases
etc.,
had
belonged
to
something
or
someone.
In
apartments
and
warehouses,
we
see
such
arrangement
of
letterboxes,
rows
of
suitcases
and
boxes.
Files’
drawers
and
card
index
files
are
useful
in
libraries
and
offices.
In
this
collection
therefore,
what
belongs
to
modern
life
in
the
traditional
setting
of
our
society
has
been
portrayed.
Abandoned,
open
or
semi
open
boxes
and
in
fact,
living
spaces
next
to
one
another
yet
separated
that
have
the
mission
to
hide
lives
unless
there
is
nothing
more
to
lose.
Names
abandoned
without
owners
in
damp
cases.
It
is
us
who
at
times
hide
behind
many
walls
and
curtains
and
remain
isolated
not
to
be
found.
Zarvan
Rouhbakhshan
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