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Quotations from a ruined city is the title of the last theatre play produced by late Iranian playwright, Reza Abdoh (1963–1995).

This exhibition takes such work as a case of study, to reflect on the violent political realities of his (and our) time. The performance centers around two male couples: the first one is a pair of gay men, shattered and sometimes shattering each other. The second couple wanders across history, starting out dressed as Puritans and ending up as modern businessmen. The play is fragmented and relies on the repetition of images and text –a recurrent formal resource in Reza’s language–. Many of these juxtapositions, collages and repetitions can also be traced through the exhibition’s spatial and narrative tactics, as a means for both insistence and confusion.

Over a career that spanned twelve years, Abdoh developed an aesthetic grammar where mythology, music clips, fairy tales, BDSM, rave culture, religion and avant– garde theatre merged,...More expand_more

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C. Luis Hoyos Sainz, 2 Interior, 39001 Santander, Cantabria, Spain
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SOLO EXHIBITION

Quotations from a ruined city

Press Release
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Quotations from a ruined city is the title of the last theatre play produced by late Iranian playwright, Reza Abdoh (1963–1995).

This exhibition takes such work as a case of study, to reflect on the violent political realities of his (and our) time. The performance centers around two male couples: the first one is a pair of gay men, shattered and sometimes shattering each other. The second couple wanders across history, starting out dressed as Puritans and ending up as modern businessmen. The play is fragmented and relies on the repetition of images and text –a recurrent formal resource in Reza’s language–. Many of these juxtapositions, collages and repetitions can also be traced through the exhibition’s spatial and narrative tactics, as a means for both insistence and confusion.

Over a career that spanned twelve years, Abdoh developed an aesthetic grammar where mythology, music clips, fairy tales, BDSM, rave culture, religion and avant– garde theatre merged,...More expand_more

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C. Luis Hoyos Sainz, 2 Interior, 39001 Santander, Cantabria, Spain
View all exhibitions in... Santander, ES
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Created by threesix on Jan 25, 2025 at 23:49
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