دفترهای پیشاسقوط برای ثبت تاریخ‌اند. برای روایت داستان زنان و مردانی که دیگر در برابر ظلم و تحقیر و سرکوب زانو نمی‌زنند. مانند فیلم‌هایی که دیده‌ایم، اما این بار در زندگی واقعی، با مشت‌های گره‌خورده از خشم، سینه سپر کرده‌اند و با جبر پیکار می‌کنند، بی‌آنکه دقیقاً فرجام این راه را بدانند.
اما مگر همیشه نگفتیم مهم مسیر است، نه مقصد؟ ضرورت دفترهای پیشاسقوط از آن لحظه برایمان هویدا شد که هیچ مجله‌ی کاغذی، در طول این سال‌ها، خیزش مردم ایران را در ۷۸، ۸۸، ۹۶، ۹۸ و ۱۴۰۰ دنبال نکرده بود. اثری که از آن قیام‌ها برجا مانده، ویدیوها و نوشته‌های اینترنتی هستند در سایت‌ها و شبکه‌های اجتماعی، و چند مقاله و کتاب که خارج از کشور بیشتر به زبان‌های خارجی منتشر شدند. مهم‌ترین ابزار ارتباطی انقلاب ۱۴۰۱ شبکه‌های اجتماعی و تلویزیون‌های خارج از کشور هستند که هیچکدام جایی برای تحلیل در عمق رویدادها و امکان تفکری نکته‌بینانه که بتواند گاهی با روایت مرسوم جنبش متفاوت باشد نمی‌گذارد. انتشار دفترهای پیشاسقوط برای ما ضرورتی آشکار در راه آزادی است.
در دفترهای پیشاسقوط وقایع و شواهد روزانه، مطالب و مقالات رهبران، متفکران و فعالان و شاهدان این انقلاب را منتشر خواهیم کرد. مصاحبه و میزگردهای مهم و مناقشه‌برانگیز این اتفاق تاریخی را به سه زبان فارسی، فرانسه و انگلیسی (و شاید زبان‌های بیشتری در آینده‌ای نزدیک) منتشر خواهیم کرد. انقلاب حرکتی است تابعِ یک ضرورت، ضرورتِ یک ملت، و این ضرورت تابعِ تاریخ است. ما اینجا ثبت تاریخ می‌کنیم. ثبت تاریخِ ملتی که «نه گفتن» را آموخت، ملتی که تسلیم نشد و سرسپردگی را با نافرمانی عوض کرد. ثبت تاریخ زنان و مردان، از آن لحظه‌ای که دیگر تسلیم ظلم نشدند تا آن زمانی که آزادی را به دست آوردند.
هر دو هفته یک بار. به زبان فارسی-فرانسه یا فارسی انگلیسی.
برای حمایت از ما می‌توانید مشترک شوید و هر دو هفته یک بار دفترهای پیشاسقوط را دریافت کنید.
Nika Shakarami
Pessac city in Bordeaux region
woman, life, freedom
Iranian revolution which began in September 2022 is leading by women has attracted the attention of the world. Iranian artists living in other countries started to echo the voice of Iranian women's desire for freedom. beside it is a reminder for every young girl and boy in the society to know that as a citizen of a country it is their absolute right to demanding peaceful protest about their future and no democrat government can stop them.
unfortunately, a lot of teenagers were killed brutally by Islamic republic of Iran and had no chance to claim their right of freedom.
First project was funded by the mayor of the Pessac city in Bordeaux region. the mural of Nika Shakarami is in a street, which is the place where a large number of teenage students pass daily and the story of Nika have told them by the teachers at schools.
the slogan of woman life freedom is now spreading in world not only to support Iranian woman, also reminding the importance of women's right in every country.
La Cité Miroir - Liége - Belgique
STATEMENT
Liberating Letters!
Words and letters are vital elements of communication. Having experienced first-hand an authoritarian regime that heavily relies on censorship, I witnessed how words might be spoken out in specific circumstances, but formed into letters, might be violently suppressed, with potential dire consequences for their authors and recipients alike. My work thus constitutes an attempt to free the imprisoned letters from all repressions and constraints, including the dictates of meaning and, in my most recent work, the fixed boundaries of the rectangular page or canvas.
As an Iranian abstract painter, I also see my work as an intervention aiming at reclaiming abstraction from overly Western-centric narratives to increase the visibility of alternative lineages and traditions. My paintings, sculptures, and works on paper are in constant dialogue with Euro-American contemporary artists such as Frank Stella and Larry Bell, and movements ranging from Shaped Canvas to Support-Surface; but they also draw from my comprehensive training in traditional calligraphy. The gestural qualities of calligraphic brushstrokes forming Persian letters, their dynamic curves and ligatures, constitute the basis of my visual vocabulary and the primary material of my artistic inspiration.
I would describe my artistic trajectory of the last two decades as a progressive expansion and radicalisation of my successive attempts at liberating words and letters. From 1999 onwards, I progressively designed my own calligraphic style, which I called “Toranj” (“citron”), a type of citrus that is also a recurrent motive in traditional Iranian art. It is the first calligraphic style to be entirely designed for contemporary painting. It is characterised by dynamic upstrokes and generous downstrokes that are particularly well suited to acrylic paint and to swift wrist movements that might be reminiscent of the gestural painting style of lyrical abstraction. For that purpose, I created a new calligraphic painting tool, called Toranj qalam, consisting in a large wooden spatula. From 2005 onwards, I started using words “freed from” meaning, which allowed me to focus exclusively on the formal qualities of letters. In my most recent series of works, from 2019 onwards, I explore the sculptural properties of letters beyond traditional formats such as rectangular canvases.
3D view of the "Mirror of the mind" installation
I free locked up calligraphy letter forms which I use as an abstract form in my art, from the rectangular canvas from acknowledging the shaped canvas movement.
Younes faghihi
Untitled { from the series the world of words }, Acrylic on canvas, 130x227 cm, diptych, 2022
The Arches { from the Rainbow series }, Ink on 300g coated paper, 60x80 cm, 2020
The Arches { from the Rainbow series }, Ink on 300g coated paper, 60x80 cm, 2020
Untitled { from the Siahmashgh series }, Acrylic on canvas, Left 100x100 cm, Center 130x130 cm, Right 100x100 cm 2019-2020
Untitled { from the series the world of words }, Acrylic on canvas, 150x360 cm triptych, 2017
Younes FAGHIHI | Multidisciplinary Artist
Bio
biography elements
1981: birth in Iran
1991: starts practicing painting
1997: High School Degree in Graphic Design
2001: Professional Degree, Iranian Calligraphy Association (high honors)
2003: B.A. in Visual Arts, IAU Central Tehran Branch (Iran)
2001-2002: teacher University technique Ali Shariati, Teheran
2010: Research Scholarship, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Settles down in Paris definitively.
2020: Artistic residency, La Pratique, Vatan, France
2022: National Diploma of Plastic Arts ( Licence ), EESAB (European School of Art of Brittany)
Exhibition
2013 : Manart Gallery, Paris (Quand les lettres fond l’amour, Solo)
2014 : GRK Gallery, Paris (Le monde des mots, Solo)
2016 : The 100 Gallery, Paris (Le monde des mots, Group)
2018 : Olivier Mousson Gallery, Paris (Solo)
2018 : Bonham’s (Los Angeles, US) (Group)
2018 : Kamil Gallery, Monte-Carlo, Monaco (Group)
2019 : Artsy, Mana art centre ( The world of words, expo. Monographique)
2020 : Saatchi Art Gallery ( New This Week, Group)
2021 : Donya Gallery, Paris (Fête des Puces, Group)
