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Hamze Farhadi

Can I go forward when my heart is here | My works are the result of companionship of oil and degeneration. They could be the illusory emblem of things that we, as Khuzestan1 natives, think about the oil but not peaking about. Two edges of happiness and misery.

This collection is look like a self-learning for me. I’ve learned that you can follow your artistic way with various answers about a single question. You just should defamiliarize from primary quiddity, or we try to not to capturing with its inevitable meanings.

My inspiration is the heritage that inherited from oil industry and my family memories. I’ve just pulled out these trophies from warehouses and have struggled for some years.

They became to creatures that have inherent beauty and also, once upon a time, have technical performance. Their present silence is full of past seethe. They are a form of mentioning a culture that changed with exotic instruments. They could be some portraits of people that are just looked like me!

1-Khuzestan, my homeland, is a main source of oil and gas in Iran. For over 100 years, since William Knox D'Arcy came to our land and find oil with our grandfathers, our lives tied to this industry and directly and indirectly we are deal with black gold. We grew up with oil, like our fathers, and some day we will die and become oil, just like our fathers.

Hamze Farhadi