His right ear has been turned into a figure akin to the personification of conscience: a kind of devil on one’s shoulder, whispering into the dark void that has now opened up above his neck. Here, the head of President Ahmadinejad (?) is doctored beyond recognition, with the addition of a rhinoceros’s tusk and bulbous, domed headwear. The events in Iran are reimagined with a sense of the ridiculous. Living outside of Iran, the artist was trying to make sense of the complexities of the situation by photographing the headline news that played out from the television of his Dubai home. The post-election unrest is injected with a sense of the fantastical and the surreal by Hearizadeh. Millions of Iranian people across cities in Iran and in Iranian communities around the world reacted by protesting the results. The elections that year were marred by irregularities in voting results and subsequent accusations of fraudulence. ‘Breaking Through the Door of Eden’ is one of a set of nine such prints commenting on the Iranian presidential elections in June 2009.
Curator's comments Rokni often paints directly on to photographs or screen-captures of television news footage.
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