Disassembled Body

In the vast openness of the desert, where no one watches and the horizon swallows sound, I placed rectangular mirrors as silent portals. Within this concealed freedom, the body could appear, vanish, and reassemble — free to exist beyond the reach of authority.

The installation was temporary, existing only for the moment we were there. It could not be public; in Iran, such images would be forbidden. The act of making it was itself a quiet defiance — a fleeting moment of autonomy in an environment that both exposes and protects.

The mirrors fractured and remade the human form, breaking it into shifting fragments of light and absence. In these reflections, the figure seems to step into nothingness, to float above the earth, to inhabit an impossible horizon. Illusion became a space of freedom — a place where the self could dissolve and return, untethered from the rules that bind it.

Concept by Shirin Abedinirad
Photography by Mehdi Teimory