{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"herfeh-honarmand.com-blogposting-english_article-130418","url":"https://herfeh-honarmand.com/english-articles/connecting-to-the-mainstream-endpoint-a-collective-talk-with-masoud-saadeddin/","name":"Connecting to the Mainstream Endpoint, with Masoud Saadeddin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://s.herfeh-honarmand.com/u/2024/06/jpeg-optimizer_Screenshot-2024-06-19-144153-200x200.png","name":"masoud-sadeddin-painting","width":200},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"herfeh-honarmand.com-webpage-english-articlesconnecting-to-the-mainstream-endpoint-a-collective-talk-with-masoud-saadeddin"},"description":"Iman Afsarian: I think after all the experiences our people and artists have gone through over the years, the issue of identity remains a central concern and a topic of debate. 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Perhaps it would be good to start our discussion from this point of view and your perspective, given that you have been painting in Iran for years and then in Germany.\n\n\n\nMasoud Saadeddin: First, I would like to explain the issue of \"identity.\" Our confrontation with Western art was essentially an engagement with perspective. This perspective, which had been painstakingly developed over 300-400 years by many artists, was a detailed process that shaped the representation of space and even portraiture. You can see this confrontation in the works of Mohammad Zaman, and since then, there have been initial efforts to preserve our artistic framework while employing the rules of perspective. We see that the issue of identity is still relevant even when we have social authority, and it becomes more acute when we lose this authority, giving rise to a kind of fundamentalism. This issue persists today, and none of us have been able to definitively solve it. I believe we need to completely move beyond this story. Everyone should accept that they have their own mindset and worldview, and this mindset is equivalent to mindsets everywhere else in the world, neither inferior nor superior. Although we have little self-confidence and are in a position of weakness, if we accept this reality, the artist, as an individual, does not need to abandon their social and geographical position but can comfortably engage with their own mindset and act with confidence. In my view, the era of separating the past is over, and we should see this collection as a single unit with geographical and cultural characteristics that everyone automatically possesses and doesn't need to work hard to acquire.\n\n\n\nAfsarian: I doubt your idea that the solution is to move beyond the story of identity and focus on individualism. 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