Elnaz Ezati | "Electrocous": Electric Room 28/50
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Dastan is pleased to announce “Electrocous*”, a presentation by Elnaz Ezati at Electric Room. The show, which will be open to public view from February 23 to 28, 2018, is a fantasy based on a phantom-like presence in Electric Room: a cover has engulfed the room, and redefining its space, puts the viewer in an alternative setting. A large animal of the fish family is installed in the room, symbolically referring to the vastness of the sea.
The artist explains: “The word ‘electricity’ is rooted in ‘electricus’, the Greek name of a fish which can produce an electric shock. These types of electric catfish can hunt other fish, but if other types of fish hunt them, both the hunter and the electricus would die.”
The viewer can feel the phantom-like presence of Electrocous and its influence. The space, as the artist puts it, is a “scene of battle” and a place for “asking questions about the truth”. In this battle, “if the vastness of the sea kills Electrocous, they would both die, and if Electrocous hunts the vastness of the sea, it will survive —thus eventually, either way, Electrocous is the winner.”
* Electrocous is a play on the word “Electricus”