5701-Untitled

Nazanin ZadMehr

From "The Next City" Collection, 2021

Iran
Print making, Linocut
Size: 18 x 13 cm

The next city is a piece of address which does not identify with a specific location and there is also no assurance for it to be found.It is  merely a promising hope for the pedestrian who is looking forward to the destination city.The next city bears the same address which might be asked a passbyer or be noticed on a road sign.
They have been looking for the next city  traveling for kilometers.They have spent days and nights on the road.As they have arrived in «the next city» they had  been told that the destination was the next city. But the next city was where the people were trapped in the confinement of a series of unorthodox and mind-blowing events.
The people who ultimately decided to get used to these changes and adapt themselves to all of those tremendous and spontaneous problems.
The people of the next city, unbelievably replied to newcomers :«The next city, the one behind the grey mountains, might be the city.

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