Title: “Zero – Waste”
Shermin Shalbaf tabar
December 2021
Tehran, IranShahr Gallery
Curator of this exhibition: Neda Darzi
Documentary Film Production: Harf-e Honar Studio
Virtual Space Partner: Peyvast Platform
Shermin Shalbaf tabar
Title: “All My Children”
Technique: Mixed Media
Year: 2021
Everything that is born from our hands shapes the face of our future. Nature, like a mirror before living beings, reflects the essence of life.
Today, with the advancement and development of industry and production, nature is at risk, akin to a triangular mirror among plastic bags. The deeper we delve into this problem and the more we extract resources and produce non-degradable waste, the closer we push the remnants of nature to the brink of destruction. What will remain from this process is a blurred and artificial image of a not-too-distant future that no longer reflects our intrinsic and natural essence, but rather a distorted and artificial reflection of our own creations, extinguishing life within it.
Gameplay:
Viewers open the bottle caps attached to the sculpture and stick them to the mirrored surface inside the frame, creating a slit in the conical plastic bag. Viewers can use the suspended tool to open the slit. As all the plastic layers of the cone are removed, the triangular mirror inside the core of the cone is revealed, and the triangular mirror within the frame is covered with the bottle caps.
Shermin Shalbaf tabar, born in 1991 in Tehran, is a sculptor, a member of the Iranian Sculptors Association, and the Institute for the Development of Contemporary Visual Arts. She specializes in the restoration of sculptures and urban artworks for Tehran’s Beautification Organization.
