Two Soules – 2024
Sima Bagherzadeh began her journey by seeing and representing, and in her previous series she depicted houseplants with delicate details, plants that sometimes hid and revealed in dramatic light and darkness.
Although in her latest series, “Two Spirits,” she continues to use previous plant forms, this time more than anything else, she narrates the passage of time and erosion. In some works, thin layers of paper are placed on top of each other, and each design, like a transparent soul, also shows the underlying layer, a process that on the one hand emphasizes the passage of time and on the other confronts the audience with a kind of uncertainty.
The “Two Spirits” series borrows its name from a Kurdish word meaning two souls, two lives, a word that is associated with the birth and growth of plants, but here the plants are an excuse to narrate our human situation in the face of the question of being or not. The paper’s composition leaks and appears and hides, and each work represents a moment right on the border of being and non-being.
In this collection, the artist does not depict plants but their fading beauty and the memory of their greenery, a philosophical experience of being and then forgetting and fading away.
Avin Farhadi
June 1403
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