Life-scale
figures are placed along the street, allowing passersby to step into the scene.
A site-specific
intervention integrating life-scale figures within a deteriorated urban
surface, positioned at the threshold between image and lived space.
Public Mural Project – Tehran Municipality, Iran, April 2025
The figures are
based on historical photographic references and rendered at a 1:1 scale.
They are placed
directly along the pedestrian path, so that people walking by can enter the
scene rather than remain outside it.
Instead of
separating the image from its surroundings, the work uses the existing
condition of the wall—its erosion, discoloration, and uneven texture—as part of
the composition.
A second framed
figure within the same wall introduces a shift in space, creating a distance
between what is immediate and what is set apart.
What becomes
important here is the moment of encounter. The work is completed through
movement—when someone passes by, pauses, or finds themselves briefly inside the
image.
