Statement:

The exhibition brings together two emblematic series of this research:

Camera Rosea and Persian Landsketches. If their forms differ, they share the same attention to the thresholds - between interior and exterior, sharpness and effacement, presence and disappearance.

With Camera Rosea, Mehran Mohajer retreats to an old wooden photographic chamber, painted red. This enclosed space becomes a mental place, a refuge located between the camera obscura and the camera lucida. 

The images appear reversed, blurry, unstable, like memories in formation. More than a technical device, the red room acts as an intimate sanctuary: it encloses and frees both a silent love for photography, transforming the act of shooting into meditation.

Persian Landsketches opens the eye to the landscape, but a landscape never fixed. 

Nourished by Persian poetry - notably Hafiz - and by the dark modernity of Baudelaire, the series offers a vision in motion, crossed by the body of the photographer. 

The hand that appears in the image is neither a simple obstacle nor an anecdotal gesture: it marks a presence, recalls that seeing is always an embodied experience. 

The landscape then dissolves into sketches, in unstable territory, crossed by a deaf anxiety.

Between interiority and horizon, these two series draw the same question: what can the image still have, when neither the world nor the gaze hold in place?///

For more than thirty years, Mehran Mohajer has a photographer, teacher, translator and author. 

Trained in photography and linguistics, he develops a practice where the act of seeing is inseparable from that of reading, of naming, of feeling.​​

This exhibition is a collaboration between Ithaca and Zaal Art Gallery.

Zaal Art Gallery is an international gallery established in Ontario, Canada, founded by Hormoz Hematian, also founder of the Dastan Gallery in Tehran, Iran. 

True to Dastan's legacy, Zaal Art Gallery develops a demanding program articulated around the publishing of artist books and monographs, film screenings and performance projects. 

The gallery is a place of reference for enlightened amateurs as well as for professionals in the sector.

Ithaque is a residence space and art gallery founded by Alexandre Arminjon in 2020, with the mission of preserving the know-how related to film photography. 

This hybrid place, located in the heart of the Marais, consists of two separate spaces. 

The first hosts photographic exhibitions. Attentive to the diversity of practices and cultures, programming aims to highlight photography in all its forms. 

The second space includes two black and white silver printing laboratories.

Since 2022, Ithaque has been offering film photography workshops for young audiences in Île-de-France. 

On the occasion of the bicentennial of photography, Ithaca was certified by the Ministry of Culture for its activities of school photographic workshops. 

At the same time, the association Les Amis d'Ithaque, which finances the activities of workshops and artist residency, has been recognized by the French tax authorities of general interest.