Source Figure1 (Installation) 

Curator: So, here we are in front of Abbas Kiarostami’s installation, "Source Figure1." It’s a site-specific piece utilizing wood and the language of sculpture, abstraction, and geometric form. What's your initial take? Editor: Wow, I'm immediately transported...it feels like walking through a petrified forest. There's something unsettling and yet deeply calming about the sheer number of these upright wooden forms. The earthy tones create a grounding effect too. Curator: The artist certainly uses form and repetition to powerful effect. We might consider the socio-political implications. In the urban landscape, where the relentless grid and repetitive structures dominate, does this installation function as an intervention? A stark commentary on urban alienation perhaps? Editor: Possibly. It definitely shakes you up a bit... pulls you out of your everyday rhythm. It's like finding yourself in a silent, structured dream. I’m curious about Kiarostami’s thought process. I wonder what he wanted people to *feel* as they wander through this constructed space. Curator: Considering Kiarostami’s broader artistic scope across film, photography and installation work, we see his interests lying in perception and reality, and that he used his art to push back against prevailing, sometimes politically oppressive conditions. The ordered, almost regulated arrangement of vertical forms might represent social control and the demand for uniformity, for instance. Editor: Hmm...that brings a different perspective. For me, the irregularities in the wood grain and the subtle variations in color on each piece bring a sense of individual beauty even within this overall ordered system. They become portraits in a crowd, don't they? I imagine each pillar having its own story. Curator: Precisely. Kiarostami creates space for multiplicity even within a seemingly regulated environment. He demands that the viewer find their individual experience while also seeing their interconnectedness through material and design. Editor: It’s beautiful and thought provoking when art allows this personal agency. It makes me feel a deep sense of hope, despite my initial feelings of unease when I look around the installation. Curator: Yes, hope born from observing the system, recognizing our place in it, and believing that multiplicity is possible. Editor: It is the dialogue of this particular structure then. A conversation about the beautiful system and not so.