Once home to Tehran's wealthiest residents, including Jewish and Zoroastrian communities, and later transformed by political upheaval, commercial expansion, and urban neglect, Pamenar Street embodies the continual rewriting of the city. Its surface bears the traces of shifting economies, ideologies, and histories.
In 2016, the street was resurfaced with stone setts as part of a municipal effort to restore its historical significance through pedestrianisation and urban redevelopment. Pamenar approaches this intervention as another layer within the street's evolving narrative.
Occupying a nine-square-metre section of Pamenar Street, the work becomes a site of negotiation between pedestrians and motorists, preservation and transformation, history and future.
Pamenar (Diptych) | Forttage | Acrylic on canvas | 150 x 300 cm (each) | 2017
Pamenar (Polyptych) | Forttage | Acrylic on canvas | 150 x 150 cm (each) | 2017