Saleh Kashefi

Sophistry, as it is called, exposes a contentious tone that pierces the despotism of the Iranian regime with a subversive blade of light. By opposing the rigidity of power with the power of the word through art, Saleh Kashefi invests creation with the status of a medium announcing Freedom and deliverance. In a psychedelic whirlwind of jerky shots, tortured geometry and eloquent superimpositions that remind us of the thunder of Dziga Vertov's avant-garde films, Saleh Kashefi iconises his fellow graduates by elevating them to the dignity of messianic figures; women and men who are the depositories of the incendiary logos and the veiled soul of the world whose liberating consciousness should be irrigated to Humanity. Through the interposition of this heterogeneous trio of creators linked by the quest for rest, Kashefi inscribes his approach in the ancestral path of the prophets and mystics by using, not without an ounce of derision, the tools of industrial modernity, and thus invites us to the fleeting contemplation of a certain idea of the Mundus Imaginalis, "where spirits become bodies and bodies become spirits."