A World Submerged in a Sad Peace
In Mohammad Tabatabai’s exploring point of view, the expelled man from Paradise has no place on the Earth and for this reason, is suspended while traveling to a new land in a very dark and quiet space. The sad stillness of the space tells us about decomposing an optimistic security. Mandatory peace for survival is the result of the whole history of human life. The figures are called to absolute silence, an inevitable silence that has come willy-nilly after a fruitless controversy to make “being” possible. In these ghostly figures, a woman is a concept swinging between two meanings: in the first concept, she appears as a sacred creature that is a symbol of birth and fertility to make life possible. You can experience peace and security in her arms. But in the second concept, she is a young, beautiful and enchanting woman that her creative power is reached to absurdity. She is a creature with disheveled hair that failure to visualize her face beside her grandiose cloths will intensify this swing. In this way, all audiences experience a moment of suspense in Mohammad Tabatabai’s Paintings; a calm yet daunting suspension
Somayeh Ramadan Mahi