Find the Lost One

Find the Lost One was a film with two parallel images from the time when the artist still dared to film in the street. The latest installation by Neda Razavipour is the result of almost candid-camera filming, because recently you can’t be seen in the street with a camera anymore – a secondary effect of combating enemy espionage. This hostility of course also affects the local population.
The two images are the same; at least that’s the impression. But the instruction ‘find the differences,’ as puzzles ask in popular magazines, suggests that someone is missing on one image. In a country like Iran, a person can suddenly disappear one day. That’s also the power of this work. Without explicit, political references, it looks at the horror of disappearances. The artist says that looking for the erased person is basically a sick game in a cynical society. A courageous work by a courageous artist.