This exhibition takes us into a world that at first appears fragmented and unrelated — a place where myths have turned into fragile paper remnants, and gardens have become grey, silent spaces that archive absence. What may initially seem meaningless is, in fact, a structure where form has replaced meaning.
Here, meaning is neither discovered nor proven; it is constructed through gaps, silences, and absences. Narratives are not created to resolve problems, but to live with them. Each fragment and each pause offers a chance to re-read meaning — a meaning that emerges and evolves throughout the course of the exhibition. The viewer is not a mere interpreter, but rather caught in the interplay between meaning and meaninglessness. Not understanding becomes the beginning of understanding. This exhibition reveals how meaning takes shape within disorder and dissonance — where the absence of structure becomes the very condition for its creation.
Paper Myths, Grey Gardens suggests that meaning is neither found nor fixed, but made — from the same apparent meaninglessness that, over time, becomes part of reality itself.
Curatorial statement by Morteza Zahedi
Image: Copyright XVA Gallery
