Arya Tabandehpoor

Animals

2010-2014

Having taken photos of roadkill, I wondered how I might present them.
With an explicit presentation, which meant encountering accident, blood and death, the viewer would be shocked.
Two years passed. One day, in a cell phone repair shop, I met a person who had brought in his burnt-in-fire iPhone 4 to be fixed. His hope for recovering his phone caught my attention. I thought, “Does anyone have a similar hope after running the animals over?”
From that day on, I started collecting broken iPhone 4 phones and put my roadkill photos into them.

Installation View