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Mojavari Gallery // ritual

by Lorin Drexler · Feb 22, 2023

Saied Mojavari – Featured Artist

ritual

as the congregation 
commences 
the members of
the group assimilate
in a circle
the women are the soul 
of the earth
and assumed as such
lead the congregation 

one is faceless 
bloating 
breast & womb
two twin
gravelly-faced
and the other 
scowls suspiciously
at the sacrificial act 
performed
outside the circle
they have decided
on their vision

the only man
in the congregation
is chosen for this rite
he drinks blood
as it spouts
from his raised hands
that shadow his crown
the light of their
spiritual dynasties weave
intersecting chaos
from their days
energies strewn
in waves of floating
body parts as they
exchange shapes
dimensions

beyond the circle
beyond the man
the world is in flames
the world outside of them
spinning houses of pain
the man steps to it
not only performs the ritual
he's the sacrifice
the light in his 
heart bleeding
within

darkness is a fool
not separate 
between
what appears plain
nothing is
but in it 
the same
one revolving
pack of wolves
one astray
as each difference shies
likenesses between 
them remain 
steady
ordinary

understanding
the difference
between sacrifices
and what
initiates the heart
inflates
definitive heads
with abstract
everything else
arms
legs
breasts
hands/we share
it all 
and understand
it little

when separated
to our private quarters
locked away from proximial
entanglement
sacrificing gods to reacquaint
a basic integrity of life
we find a molecule
in which all 
things relate

do we then understand
nature?

much of life
shared is content
much deformed
is in spite and heated
by friction
desperate to embody 
sense of this
we are conscious of

nothing is permanent
nothing
except this moment

by LORIN DREXLER


Mojavari Gallery – Saied Mojavari

https://www.mojavarigallery.com

I was born in 1968 in Lahidjan, north of Iran. At the age of fourteen, I set out to Teheran to study at an Art School for boys. After I was instructed there in sculpture, drawing, painting, and art history, I returned to my home region to attend the grammar school in Rascht with the main focus on subjects related to art, where I also received the public school-leaving exam and university entrance qualification in 1988 with graphic art as my major. From 1989 to 1994, I studied free pictorial art and film at Tehran University, receiving a Master of Arts degree in 1994. I have always appreciated media film and started producing and directing short films in 1988. My film “Ghalb” (“The heart”) was nominated in 1992 at the French International Film Festival of Cannes. From 1994 to 1996, I worked at the educational department of the Tehran Art College and as a lector at Rascht University, where I taught free pictorial art and art history. In 1997 I took up residency in Cologne, Germany. For the first years, I worked at advertising agencies and film-producing companies. From 2000 to 2008, I ran the Mojavari Gallery at Cologne’s art centre. It presented the artworks of several international artists, in addition to my paintings.

I have relocated Mojavari Gallery to Berlin and I’m currently working as a professional artist in this new location.


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