Dar-e (Door) was carried out during a trip to a desert in Iran, in the city of Ghale’t Balla (Suspended Castle). Abbas Kiarostami’s Doors Without Keys installation, which features photographs of doors taken in several countries over two decades, is the starting point for this work. The interior of a corral is filmed from the threshold of its entrance, from where we can see a couple feeding the goats that live there. The coincidence of the door with the framing of the scene refers to the opening to an unknown world, here the interior of a Persian residence, made possible by the audiovisual record which, like a door, can be both an entrance and an exit. Gestated in the silence of the unfamiliarity with the Persian language, Dar-e speaks of hospitality, intimacy and reciprocity. The work was carried out in 2016 as a result of the residency award of the 19th Videobrasil Festival at the Kooshk Residency in Tehran, Iran.
