Untitled (District Sixteen)
2010
Continuous slide projection installation, 14 slides, color, sound, English voice over by Ayça Özkan
14 min 15 sec
Untitled (District Sixteen) revisits the former Tehran slaughterhouse, which has been transformed to a culture centre after the revolution of 1979. By means of a narration and a slideshow of the site's current condition, a photographer illustrates a visit to the site accompanied by a former worker of the slaughterhouse where each of them, take a tour in their individual memories of the site. After recalling detached memories of the site, their parallel routes meet in the future that they cannot foresee.
* Untitled (District Sixteen) is also the second chapter of Swede Home 1966/1973/1975/2009 as it revisits Tehran slaughterhouse, one of the sites that Jan Edman, a Swedish engineer was working on during his time in Iran.
Installation view of Swede Home & Untitled (District Sixteen) together
© 2007-2011 Shirin Sabahi
