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Posted In press 2014
The London art festival Passion For Freedom will take place from 5th to 15th November at the Embassy Tea Gallery (near Tate Modern). The festival is an exhibition of brave artists who have tried to answer three questions through
their art: What is freedom? How easy is it to lose? How hard is it to get it back?
– Which stone do you choose? – The question is posed by a young, smiling girl
welcoming a guest at the entrance to the Passion For Freedom art exhibition.
The question is both surprising and confusing. The guest needs to be asked one more
time and prompted – Choose the one you like the most.
The girl is holding a jute sack filled with stones the size of a fist. She
offers one to the guest, encouraging him with a smile. Find a place where this
stone belongs – the girl suggests. The guest begins to understand. Now he
realises that this is a game, that he is involved in a performance, and the clue
to the riddle must be found within the gallery.
He finds a pile of similar stones near one of the gallery walls. Above them
there is a tablet hanging, with a fragment of the law code of The Islamic
Republic of Iran, which says that adultery in that country is a crime. The
punishment is stoning to death.
Iranian law clearly specifies the size of the stone that can be used as a tool
to inflict the death penalty. It cannot be too big, as the idea is not to kill a
convict at the first or second hit; however, it cannot be too small to be called
a stone. The guest realizes that the particular stone he is holding in his hand
would be a perfect weapon to perform an execution. [ Read more ]
