honorable mention
Omid Mohkami iran, islamic republic of
title
Sacred Remains
- FineArt Photographer
- Photography of Musuem Objects & Artworks | Since 2006 Until Now
- Art Director of Elmi-Farhangi Publishing | Special Project Department |
Since 2014 Until Now
- Art Director | Project of Republishing Musuem‘s Exquisite Manuscripts (more than 40) |
Since 2008 Until Now
Solo Exhibitions:
- Blood Crumpled collection | Solo Exibition | 2011 | Shokouh Gallery | Tehran
- Absence collection | Solo Exibition | 2014 | Narenj Gallery | Shiraz
- Tabarxun collection | Solo Exibition | 2014 | No. 14 Gallery | Tehran
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entry description
The myth represents antiquity human’s creativity faceing life. Myths illustrate Creation and from the endless regenerations, give another meaning to death. From the middle of the 17th A.D., modern human Faith in wisdom has created several problems as the most reliable weapon: war crimes, barren revolutions, forgettable deaths, hopeless refugees, unauthorized immigrants and environmental ruins caused by human ignorance; How it can be justified and soothe, those with such a fair wisdom? We must add a new fear on the list of our despairs: greed for achieving Nuclear Power! Over the centuries, sacrifices (Sacred Remains) were offered to solicit semantic beyond objectivity. One of the sacrifices in Persian's mythology, which is rooted in Indo-European and West Asian mythologies, is an ox killing (Tauroctony). Ox has a great character in Indo-European culture. It’s the focal of life's upheavals. Times of the day were divided in early pasturing, yoking, and unyoking oxen. Even the water holes were measured based on the ox's hooves sizes. The relation between moon and ox in the ancient culture of primitives, in particular in Indo-European culture is very impressive.For the ancient human, the moon is the first phenomenon that dies and resurrects. As the crescent and the harvest moon are cycled phenomenon, the death of man is also not inevitable. The ox’s horn and crescent have visual communication, which has caused many imaginations in the Paleolithic images.The ox has a pivotal place; as the fifth creature of ‘Ohrmazd’ (God), on behalf of beneficial creatures, and also as the most important quadrupeds in the history of Iran’s plateau (AVESTA 'the holy book of Zoroasterianism' and Pahlavi traditions). This collection based on ox's myth in Iranian culture, its symbolic meanings and modern perceptions is developed.about the photographer
Omid Mohkami. 1978. Shiraz, Iran- FineArt Photographer
- Photography of Musuem Objects & Artworks | Since 2006 Until Now
- Art Director of Elmi-Farhangi Publishing | Special Project Department |
Since 2014 Until Now
- Art Director | Project of Republishing Musuem‘s Exquisite Manuscripts (more than 40) |
Since 2008 Until Now
Solo Exhibitions:
- Blood Crumpled collection | Solo Exibition | 2011 | Shokouh Gallery | Tehran
- Absence collection | Solo Exibition | 2014 | Narenj Gallery | Shiraz
- Tabarxun collection | Solo Exibition | 2014 | No. 14 Gallery | Tehran
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