Shahre Farang objects, light and sound
Installation
Shahre Farang (Farsi for “chequered world”) is the name for a particular version of peep boxes in the Middle East that were in use for long centuries and up to the 1960s. The boxes offered the possibility to view an exhibition of pictures in the inside through a small hole and were usually travelled from village to village by the show-man. The box could be made out of metal in the shape of an oriental castle with several holes. It contained a set of pictures which the show-man could move in the inside of the box by pulling the string. Common subjects included tales from A Thousand and One Nights. The presentation was usually accompanied with a “talk show” that explained what was happening…
In his installation “Shahre Farang”, Shahram Entekhabi rebuilt the traditional peep box in a contemporary version.
