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The Human Condition
Shabnam Eltejaee - Solo Show
13 days to the ending
9 Oct - 23 Oct, 2026
Ba Gallery
No.603 | Modern Plaza Building | No.1 | Nastaran Backend | Baharan St | Artesh W Blv |Tehran | IranStatement:
The enduring patterns of human existence have long been
shaped by a small number of fundamental forces: survival, power, and desire.
Their traces can be found throughout history, reaching back even to the images
and markings left on ancient walls.
The impulse toward domination and superiority has, at
times, driven human beings to acts of extraordinary violence and excess.
It is
as though humanity has repeatedly sought not only to overcome the other, but to
consume them entirely to erase their presence and banish their shadow from the
world.
Human beings have often attempted to explain this cycle
as an expression of their “animal nature,” shifting responsibility onto
instincts supposedly shared with other living creatures.
Yet the relentless
pursuit of power and the rationalization of domination are not merely animal
impulses.
They belong to one of the most persistent and distinctly human
behavioral archetypes.
Through the entanglement and interweaving of bodies, “The
Human Condition” reflects on this long historical struggle a condition in which
human consciousness has so often been devoted to absorbing, suppressing, and
ultimately erasing its own kind.
Aidin Xankeshipour
October 2026
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