Remainder


I lived on the 3rd floor, as the only inhabitant of an empty apartment building in Tehran. Many hours I spent looking outside of my window, watching the building which was the only thing in my view that I could see. The curtains were always closed, but sometimes I could find signs of life in the form of wet clothes that were hanging outside to dry, on the 3rd floor. I soon tried to imagine what kind of person I could find there. For about six months, I was playing the role of detective for my own curiosity.

During this period, I took photographs of the clothes from my window, with my imagination of the person who lives there always changing, with every new piece of clothing I saw. I tried to recreate the personalities I constructed in my mind along the way, which I then combined and contrasted with the pictures of the building.

Finally, a few days before I moved out, I saw this person for a few moments while she was hanging a piece of clothing outside.



Mahshid Mahboubifar

Mahshid Mahboubifar (b. 1991, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Leipzig, Germany. She studied her bachelor’s in Visual Communication in Tehran and moved to Germany to study her master’s in Digital Media at the University of Arts Bremen. Her practice includes photography, video art, and installation in which she uses everyday experiences as a starting point and approaches them playfully and critically.

https://mahshidmahboubifar.com/
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