The Working Title #1, pigment print on archival paper, 200 x 70 cm
The Working Title #1, pigment print on archival paper, 200 x 70 cm
The Working Title #1, installation view, 2025
The Working Title #3, 2012
Something Axiomatic Here (and Elsewhere), Alibaba Conundrum, Illuminated Stereo digital image, LCD, 3D glasses, dimensions varied, (Installation View), Griffin Art Projects Gallery, 2025
Upon donning the 3D glasses, the visitor encounters the text as a sculptural presence—suspended, detached from its background image, hovering in perceptual space. The screen reads: “it has to be said that the image of the sum will have nothing to do with the sum of images.
The working Title #2, 2012. (L): Inkjet Print, 100 X 160 cm, (R): Light Box, Transparency paper, 100 X 160 cm
*The original of the cropped photo on the left by Maryam Zandi from 1979 Iran's revolution.
The working Title #2, 2012. (detail)
The Working Title #1
(Ongoing Series)
The Working Title #1 is a documentation of an event-based intervention. A single horse barricade is put in the middle of an urban boulevard—an object that, in its usual bureaucratic context, signals urban construction. Here, detached from any visible site of labour, the barricade becomes a dislocated signifier of a process that never arrives. While clearly no construction was underway on either side of the barricade, passersby instinctively changed their path. The sign alone is enough!
For a week, the barricade remained untouched and not removed by civic authorities. Its despotic presence activated the collective choreography of compliance that undergirds contemporary urban experience. What emerges was not a prank but an index of the semiotic economy of “construction” with its adjacent neo-liberal faith: a regime in which the language of capital expansion and development legitimizes the continuous privatization of the public realm and the production of docile subjects within
The Working Title #3
Image 1: 2012
Image 2 & 3: Something Axiomatic Here (and Elsewhere), Alibaba Conundrum, Illuminated Stereo digital image, LCD, 3D glasses dimensions varied, (Installation View), 2025
The Working Title #2
(L): Inkjet Print, 100 X 160 cm, (R): Light Box, Transparency paper, 100 X 160 cm, 2012
*The original of the cropped photo on the left by Maryam Zandi from 1979 Iran's revolution.