Ghazaleh Seidabadi
I am a contemporary artist, performer, new media artist and illustrator. I live in Tehran and studied painting at University of Tehran then I started to experience other artistic media and mix them together. I like to use narratives as my main tool in my projects. My projects have been exhibited in several art exhibitions: Empty Space (New York/ Brooklyn), Kronos Art Festival (Barcelona, Spain), E1 Gallery (Tehran), We Don't Fall (The wrong biennale). My last published book is illustrating a book about Corona and Children which was translated into several languages.
OMEN
“Omen” Ghazaleh Seidabadi
One is less likely to have the ability of control. It's less common in life to be able to restrain events and people the way one wants. What you are able to do is “wait” and "want". 'Tis all a chequer-board of nights and days Where Destiny with Men for pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám – translated by Edward Fitzgerald In the culture of my country, "omen" plays an important role, as if our destiny has already been determined by chance, and by divination through a poem, coffee or something else, even an egg! The divination will give you the answers you are looking for. The "Omen" video shows four women who live in an unknown world under the water. not only the girl with the flower, which seeks light, divines, but also the three goddesses, who are weaving her destiny as in the myth of the sisters of fate, determine their next step by repeating random sentences while spanning her hair. Destiny is a great unknown that everyone tries to identify it by unwritten definitions in their minds, while they do not know if: They will live today They will live a lot Or they will live today not The powerpoint presentation of the work is designed in the form of an omen and the audience can click on the screen to divine; once for the fate of another person and once for themselves.