maryamfarshad-mirror-project

Mirror Project

 

participatory project

Since 2018

  Mirror Project is a participatory project with a human approach that tells our common and yet unique story. We can all be a part of it and we can all create a chain that connects our identities and differences. Most of us have the experience of standing in front of the mirror, from the very first people who saw their own reflection in the water to these days everyone has been looking in this reverse world. Our eyes were watching our eyes, with a special look that we didn't have for anyone else. For me, this image is sometimes a stranger whose eyes looks at me and sometimes familiar. My personal experience of encountering myself in the mirror is the image of a human being without necessarily considering that its myself.

a sensation in me says that we humans are more alike and connected than what we know. The goal of this project is to create a contemplative space to once again look at our mirrors, staring into our eyes and recording that moment. We could share this human(image) and connect ourselves to the main chain away from all discriminations and differences.

In the process of this project I will draw your pictures and share them with you. drawing as a media has the power to equates each and every one of us regardless of our races, genders or orientations. In this process we will face ourselves with a humanistic approach and this vision is like a book that time adds more and more pages to it. the world of drawing reminds us our common roots and gives us equal values with no discrimination.

If you want to be a part of this project, send me your photos (in front of the mirror when you look at yourself) through my website or project’s instagram page. Along with filling in the Application form, write a short sentence about what u see in the mirror in whatever language you like. I will draw your portraits and will share them on the mirror project’s page. The other output of this project is in the form of an artistibook, which will be released soon. You can also invite your friends by sending them an application form to participate in the Mirror project and expand this related world beyond the boundaries.

More than a hundred people participated in this project and it is still open for participation.