According to the news agency Online news; According to the public relations of the art field of the Islamic Revolution, this exhibition includes 52 photos in the sizes of 50 x 70 cm, 100 x 150, 100 x 70 and 30 x 40 cm, which were taken from 2013 to 1402 by photographers Tahira Babaei and Tehmina Rahmani. has been registered.
Tahereh Babaei, who is one of the photographers of the exhibition “Majlis-e Perdnashinan” exhibition, recounts her memories of Muharram 2018 about photographing home mosques and says: I was looking to show a new frame of the mosque, so I decided to photograph the founders of home mosques, but due to the spread of Corona It completely changed and something happened that led me to photograph mourning spaces. Due to my old friendship with Tehmina Rahmani, we got together and we asked the public to inform us if they held a home prayer so that we could take pictures of their circles, even though they were limited. During that period, people used to put up mourning flags on the front of their houses and announced that they would not hold ceremonies due to the spread of the corona virus, but their hearts were full for Muharram and mourning. But what was interesting was that when we entered the Rouza, we encountered a group of three or four people who were reciting Ashura pilgrimage and Rouza. These circles were held with the quality of previous funerals, but they were very strange. The strangeness of Muharram in Corona was kept alive by the mood of Hosseini mourners.
He continues his words like this: Some used to hold house prayer in the yard, some in the street and some on the roof. Corona had caused some reciters to go to home prayers, one of these people was Mr. Mutsharari, who used to go to the alleys and martyrs’ neighborhood and recite prayers. By identifying the martyrs of Mahalat in the first and second decade of Muharram, he used to mourn and pray in front of the house of the martyrs in the presence of the neighbors and the martyr’s family.
A picture in memory of mother
Pointing to the 16 pictures of him on the wall in the “Majlis of the Curtained” exhibition, Babaei is silent for a moment in front of a photo, as if he has a memory in his mind that made his eyes close at the moment. Suddenly he opened his mouth and showed a picture of his mother mourning. Badaghi, with the hatred in his heart, recounted the memory of his mother’s last presence in the Hosseini mourners, the mother who died last year, on this very night after mourning for Seyyed Shahidan.
Tehmina Rahmani, who was the photographer of this exhibition, described the process of photographing home prayer rooms as follows: We started our work in 1399, which is the first Muharram of Corona. At that time, there was confusion between the people and the officials, and both the decisions were to close the large delegations and hold Hosseini’s funeral. By chance, I saw a story in the virtual space that one of the preachers in Bagh Faiz neighborhood spontaneously went to the house of the martyrs with minimal facilities, which included a zilo and a speaker, and recited the Rosary. This story was interesting to me because the form of mourning was completely different from the previous years and it had an attractive visual atmosphere for me. I accompanied that madah and through this companionship I got to know the courtyard of the house. The first year of the project was entirely devoted to the outdoor spaces and shrines at the door of the house of martyrs and the courtyard and behind the canvases, and we did not enter the houses at all, but in the second year of Corona, it seems that people had lost their fear of Corona to a certain extent, and the shrines were in the form of small gatherings. And a limited number were held in homes. The mosques returned to their original form and image in 1401. The first three years were a process and a step for me, and before that, many people were bound to home prayer, but Corona forced people to close prayer. Little by little, during the last year and this year, this project has become a work of my heart, so that I am still taking pictures of home prayer rooms.
Our goal is to spread the culture of home rituals
Tehmina Rahmani says about holding the “Majlis Se Pardnashinan” exhibition: Our goal in photographing mourning circles was to spread the culture of home prayer houses, and we presented the works of the first three years to the news agencies by familiarizing ourselves with the media environment so that people could see the output of our work.
At the same time, we were getting very good feedback and professors like Ehsan Bagheri gave us a lot of guidance and said that the collection has the ability to put pictures on the frame of the exhibition and then become a book.
The exhibition will not be the end of the project
He adds: In the beginning, we did not seek to hold a photo exhibition and we did not photograph the shrines for the purpose of the exhibition, but as the project progressed and the number of photos increased, the professors proposed to display them, but since I did not want the exhibition to be the end of the project, the exhibition was burdened. I would not go and this exhibition will not be the end of my project because the photography of the shrines will continue. The exhibition “Majlis-e Perdnashinan” is a small part of the archive of photos that Tahereh Babaei and I have photographed, and I have photographed about 190 congregations.
Moving towards the narrative of Majlis
Referring to the fact that 37 photos of him are on the wall in this exhibition, Rahmani says about the results of his works: the feedback I get from this exhibition and the opinions of the professors who will visit these works will definitely influence the process of this project and we We will take advantage of people’s opinions and then we will move towards the publication of a photo book of home rituals. This exhibition is a single photo that we have recorded from the gatherings, but since last year we have gone to the stories and narratives of people because it is more important than these moments. With the end of Corona, we have decided to have a narrative of that prayer meeting, and this will make the work environment very different.
It should be noted that the photo exhibition “Majlis-e Pardnashinan”” will be held from Sunday, July 24, 1403 to September 3, 1403, on Saturdays to Wednesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and on Thursdays from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Islamic Revolution, Somayeh St. intersection of Hafez St. can be visited.
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