A public mural engaging cultural memory through the intersection of poetry, image, and everyday urban experience.
- Public Mural Project – School Commission, Tehran, Iran, October 2022
This mural brings together portraits of influential Iranian poets, including Nima Yushij, Sohrab Sepehri, Parvin Etesami, and Houshang Ebtehaj (Sayeh), alongside fragments of their writings. Installed on the exterior wall of a school, the work operates at the intersection of language, memory, and public space.
Rather than presenting these figures as fixed cultural icons, the portraits are embedded within a continuous visual field, where text and image dissolve into one another. The use of poetic fragments does not function as direct quotation, but as a dispersed presence—partially legible, partially absorbed into the surface.
The setting plays a central role. Positioned within an everyday educational environment, the work engages a passing audience rather than a fixed viewer. Students, pedestrians, and the surrounding urban flow become part of the work’s temporal structure, encountering it in fragments over time.
The mural does not aim to monumentalize these figures, but to re-situate them within a living context—where cultural memory is not preserved as a stable form, but continuously reinterpreted through movement, distance, and repetition.
