A Disappointing Idea to Build a Roof on a Lit Cand

Similar to collective rituals, Mahroumi’s works manipulate emotions and strengthen identities and communal commitments, using psycho-sociological processes based on a form of therapy that is based on material. Perhaps he considers the root of all disease to be the loss or damage of the soul. What he seems to be offering as the cure is to conjure and evoke suppressed memories: “There is a sun concealed in each particle.

A white space that does not signify a particular place. Candles whose lives have come to an end. The moment of the candle burning down is contrasted with the simulation of a candle in 80 slide frames, which is a report that testifies to the fact that the candle was once alive. The slide machine makes a regular rhythm. Everything seems to be expired. It is as if something has happened and we have arrived too late. Material is unstable and mutable, and the significance of time is concealed in the context of the artwork. Here, light is captured by shadows. While the ideological system wants us to believe that there is one reality and one system of evaluation, the artist sees the reality as diverse and fragmented, not as a singular matter.