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Etemad Art Gallery Oct Nov 2013 Laleh Memar Ardestani Observatory 01
Tehran
رصدخانه
در گذران روزها و دقيقه ها ، در مسير تغيير و تكامل ،  دور شدن و باز پيوند خوردن ، نطفه ای سرآغاز خلق موجودی معاصر  می گردد كه ضربان هستی اش و هويت زنانه اش را اين گونه رصد می كند : 

كالبدی با هندسه ی پيچيده كه از نو ايستادن را يادآور می شود و تار و پودی هم بافت ، به زيبايی و ظرافت يك جهان از منظر رصدخانه.
اين موجود از كجا به ناكجا حركت می كند ... يك قدم به جلو ... يك قدم به عقب ... 
گاه می چرخد ... هرازگاهی توقف ... و دوباره پيش می رود.


راه زمين و آسمان رنگين ...
لحظه اي هم سپيد و بي وزن ...
گويي خيالي بيش نبوده.


نظاره گران ، طپش خطوط راغريبانه مشاهده مي كنند و در پي كشف رمز و سِرّ و زبان حياتش برمي آيند.

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ريشه ها بر استخوان ايستاده اند . حتي به قيمت تكه تكه شدن ، باز از پا نمي افتند . آن ريشه ها پاشنه ها را ور كشيده اند تا در جدال ديروز و امروز ، ستيز سنت و مدرنيسم ، پيروز شوند.

لاله معمار اردستانی، 1392



OBSERVATORY
As the time runs away in days and minutes, along the road to transformation and evolution, moving away and rejoining, a genesis turns into the beginning of the creation of a contemporaneous being whence she starts to watch her pulse of existence and female identity in this way:
 
A frame with a complex geometry that is reminiscent of getting upright anew, and a harmoniously woven warp and woof with the beauty and elegance of the universe from the viewpoint of an observatory.

Whence this creature moves to nowhere... one-step forward… one-step backward…now turning…now stopping and going ahead once again.
 
The road to the colorful earth and heavens…
White and weightless, a moment…
As if it was nothing but a mere imagination.
 
The observers exotically watch the pulsating lines and seek to decipher their life code and language.
  
 
Roots are standing on top of bones. They do not succumb, even to the expense of fragmentation. The roots have got shod and are determined to come out victorious in the battle between yesterday and today, tradition and modernism.

Laleh Memar Ardestani, 2013
Translated by  M.T. Faramarzi

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