Join us on Wednesday March 19 from 6:30pm to 8pm in the Palais de Tokyo hamo for the launch of Parand Danesh and Alireza Mohammadi’s first book.

The launch will be followed by a book signing at the Palais de Tokyo’s bookshop starting at 8pm.

Zamânshoor is a unique exploration of a “dissonant” archive resulting from the collaboration between artist Alireza Mohammadi and researcher Parand Danesh. Together, they delved into a vast collection of visual relics discovered in unconventional ways in public spaces across Iran — images that surfaced from the peripheries and fringes of the official martyrological iconography of the Iran-Iraq War. The collection presented in this volume is distinguished by its reflective nature, acting as a distorted mirror of the visual production emerging from state-controlled institutional channels. The title of the archive and the book, Zamânshoor, is a neologism coined by the authors, conveying dual meanings: both “washed by time” and “washer of time.” Serving as the conceptual thread in a multidimensional approach intertwining creation, curation, and research, the term frames an effort to contextualize and interpret the images that comprise this volume.