Sanam Sayeh Afkan

“Labyrinth” November 26 – December 13, 2021

Labyrinths are places consisting of intertwined paths with entrances and exits that are difficult to find.
In a Labyrinth, there’s a variety of paths and a simultaneous possibility of being lost and found. The only rule of the labyrinth is coincidence, and you can’t act by an argumentative rule in the labyrinth. You should coincidentally choose between one of two existing paths and hope for the best. Even in coincidences, the totality of it all is ruled by order.
As Borges writes in The Library of Babel: “The Library is unlimited but periodic. If an eternal traveler should journey in any direction, he would find after untold centuries that the same volumes are repeated in the same disorder-which, repeated, becomes order.”

Inspired by contemporary world literature, and the work of authors like Haruki Murakami, I have found common aspects of studying labyrinth structures, so I seek to study the structure of special geometry and the ultimate continuity of unpredictable and chaotic events.
The perplexity of my elements start at the eternal feeling of loss and regret, and continue into imagining the regressive passage of time into a revolving and ever- expanding labyrinth, in which we remember the suture and know nothing of the past; so that the viewer is placed in a labyrinth of familiar and unfamiliar elements, suspended between dreams and reality, to seek, trapped in the timelessness, silence, and congelation of collaged spaces, and to realize the futility of this world of my design.