Saint Abdullah
Postcards From The Outer Boroughs
15 printed postcards designed by Iranian artists Ghalamdar and Saint Abdullah. "These are an edited collection of images pulled together from the years of the Iran-Iraq war. A collection of 15 works of art titled 'Postcards From The Outer Boroughs'. Some of these images belonged to our family, others we found by forming a dialogue with the actual men who fought in battle with our family members. Men who remember those last, precious moments of the lives of our loved ones. We were curious to somehow learn more about that moment from those who served. These postcards are the culmination of the hard work and imagination of Ghalamdar, a wonderful Iranian visual artist based in the UK. In them, we explored how we could modify these quintessentially Iranian motifs to lift the weight of emotion, the weight of innocence, of loss, of blind faith, to the end? How do we connect an Iran of the past, Iran of the books, to the Iran of today? After all, we are of the same blood. As a by-product of mixing media, mixing contexts, we attempt to playfully bridge this gap, if ever so slightly." Lavishly printed on fine matt card, in sealed mylar pack.