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Sepehr
Bakhtiyar
Hatra
I’ve
wrestled
out
of
the
earth
cut
off
heads
and
remnants
of a
historical
city
that
bear
witness
to
the
limit
experience
(Blanchot)
of
destruction,
demolition
and
extermination.
Man
destroys
of
envy
or
fear
that
the
treasured
might
fall
into
the
hands
of
the
other
(“the
enemy”).
The
destruction
of
Hatra
by
Daish,
and
of
Bamiyan
by
Taliban:
we
bear
witness
that
they
demolish
and
flatten
the
sublime
as
to
overcome
history
and
its
remembrance.
The
past
is
not
worthless,
but
it
is
enclosing
upon
us.
The
destroyers
are
the
non-believers.
An
extermination
strategy:
destruction
and
demolition
as a
means
to
extinguish
the
possibility
of
others’
access,
remembrance
or
use.
It’s
as
if
we
use
this
extermination
strategy
in
relation
to
our
history.
We
destroy
–
and
destroy
ourselves
- of
envy
and
fear.
The
golden
tears
and
blood
of
my
statues,
their
congealed
pain,
are
the
remnants
of
the
destructions
and
demolitions
that
no
dynamite
or
hammer
can
exterminate. |
