Mina Amiri Kalvøy ☄︎
Irāne Māmān is inspired by the past of my Iranian mother and born out of a number of conversations held with her. Her upbringing and past has always been a mystery to me, a non-linear narrative of anecdotes and stories she would share unexpectedly and unprompted. Because of this I always found them to sound magical and mythical, my fantasy filling in the blank spaces and trying to distinguish between memories, dreams and realities. Driven by this, I sat down with her to recount some of the things I had heard throughout the years.
The conversations were later categorised and divided into three main topics; the Iranian revolution and my mother’s part in this, the Iran-Iraq war, and my mother leaving her home country behind to come to Norway. The project consists of a series of carpets inspired by traditional Persian iconography, a series of videos with the recordings of our conversations, and flyers contextualising the project and the different events.