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(Ahmadinejad was subsequently accused by members of the Iranian Parliament of spending state funds to purchase nine million votes.) The election launched a widespread protest movement known as the “Green Movement” which challenged the results and called for political and economic reforms. The scale of the protests brought a severe response from the state: many hundreds of protestors were arrested or killed, the movement’s leaders were interned and tortured, and the judiciary staged over 100 show trials. Within six months, what was essentially a secular movement for democratic reform had been violently suppressed. However, as one of the largest protests in Iranian history, the Green Movement’s legacy is significant. It forms a vital bridge between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the Woman, Life, Freedom protests of our recent period. \n\r\n Mohammad Ghazali’s photographic installation, Home.Green. refers directly to the movement and was initiated during its existence. In 88 black prints it shows the streets and buildings of Tehran devoid of human presence. The address of each location is written in Persian on the mount below. Each photograph also contains a stain recorded on the architecture; the mark was the result of an egg filled with green paint being thrown against the facade. The prints are evidence of a protest action – translated as “the eggs infused with green” – that was central to the Movement. Green was the official colour of the Mousavi campaign (referencing also the Shia religion) but quickly became a symbol of unity and hope worn by protestors voicing their opposition to the regime. The distinctive marks left by the broken eggs were soon erased from the buildings. \n\r\nGhazali recorded these traces across the city during the period of the protests. He then spent ten years editing them into a grid of 88 prints. His photographs of Tehran are deliberately free of people, and they document and sustain the memory of a vanquished movement for political reform. The title Home.Green. refers to the protest movement but also to the domestic architecture which is the focus of the artist’s camera (there are relatively few commercial or government buildings featured). For Ghazali, a protest that is often registered privately within the family home takes on a public presence, albeit briefly. The series is also a record of the changing character of Tehran’s built environment as the modernist architecture of the 1960s and 1970s is increasingly destroyed in a speculative real estate market favouring high rise buildings. The work is both a document of urban transformation and a poetic reflection on the memory of a defeated political movement. \r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"Black and white photograph depicting an urban landscape view of Tehran. There are no people in the image. 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