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Amir
Dastmardi
Too
Much
of a
Good
Thing
We
live
in a
democratic
world.
Democracy
has
been
very
inuential
in
the
formation
of
the
current
situation
of
the
world
during
the
past
century.
Today,
democracy
has
stepped
beyond
being
only
a
way
of
governing
a
system
and
has
turned
out
to
be a
way
of
life.
Economy
has
been
democratized.
Culture
has
been
democratized.
Information
and
technology
have
been
democratized.
Violence
has
been
democratized
as
well.
It
has
also
been
the
origin
of
great
structural,
social
and
cultural
changes
in
the
developing
countries.
These
changes
have
resulted
in
the
creation
of
two
general
approaches.
One
is
the
tendency
towards
globalization
in
various
‑elds,
and
the
other,
the
tendency
towards
localization
and
return
to
one's
historical
self.
The
outcome
of
the
two,
is
the
current
situation
of
Iran.
The
emergence
of a
fallacious
gap
which
can
never
be ‑lled.
This
gap
exists
in
the
society,
in
human
relations
and
even
in
each
individual
subject
and
nothing
is
exactly
in
accordance
with
itself.
The
disaster
occurs
when
‑lling
this
gap
with
ideological
contents.
Most
of
the
cultural,
commercial
and
social
products
in
the
society,
basically
try
to
hide
the
existing
gaps
and
in
fact
play
the
role
of a
machine
for
producing
fantasy.
What
is
shown
in
this
collection,
is
the
recreation
of
familiar
visual
symbols
and
transforming
them
into
new
conceptual
pieces.
Symbols
that
change
in
meaning
and
divert
their
route
when
put
in
cultural,
social
and
historical
concepts.
The
iconic
image
of
pluralism
by
means
of
familiar
forms,
is
the
recurring
motif
in
this
collection. |
