The image of carcass and meat in the European painting tradition is a vehicle for evoking the relationship between death and beauty. Sliced meat is one of the most disgusting scenes in still life painting, which painters such as Rembrandt have represented as an image of cruelty and violence. Meat in Aida Masoumi's photographs is not a sacred ritual (like sacrificing to a sacred icon) but a representation of the everyday act of cutting and chopping meat, which points to the dichotomy between need and survival in the face of an ancient disgust for the violence of wildlife. In fact, Aida, with an aesthetic gaze, wounds an accepted tradition that, outside of urban life, is placed under an unpleasant element of violence and savagery, so that, despite its acceptance, it is appropriate to the image of the slaughtered and sacrificed body.
| Curated by Aliakbar Sayah |
