Dutch Wood

Mahmoud Bakhshi

During his two-year residency in Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Mahmoud Bakhshi came across an archive of sixty-eight photographs, including images of butterflies, various plants, workers in a forest, festivities, and the city. Accentuating the colonial quality of those photographs and by referring to how the nobility used the peasants, with trees as a frame of reference, he considers the similarity between the feudal system and the relationship between the artist and the society. A video of motionless workers in the woods that aggrandizes more details of photographs is another part of the project and two color photographs by the artist are new additions to the work.

Mahmoud Bakhshi, from “Dutch Wood” project, video installation, duration: 6:14, edition of 3 + 2 AP, 2015
Mahmoud Bakhshi, from “Dutch Wood” project, installation view, 2020
Mahmoud Bakhshi, from “Dutch Wood” project, installation view, 2020
Mahmoud Bakhshi, from “Dutch Wood” project, installation view, 2020