مهسا بیگلو-I was once Sisyphus
in pursuit of light
This installation presents fragmented footage from the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising in Iran, capturing moments when citizen-journalists, filming the regime’s brutality with their phones, are forced to flee oppressive forces. Those blurred images and muffled sounds often feel more terrifying than scenes of explicit violence, the dread lies in not knowing what happens next. We assume the person might have survived because the video was sent and shared, yet we’ve also witnessed countless clips where the phone outlives its owner. The device becomes both witness and survivor, carrying traces of lives cut short.
Projected onto semi-translucent reflective films extracted from discarded TV screens, these moving images evoke both resistance and fragility, exposing the uneasy tension between visibility, vulnerability, and witnessing.