“It is only in an unbalanced state that you can achieve balance. Remain loyal to the pre-drawn lines. Balance is the law, and the law defines a ‘system.’ Therefore, nothing can exist beyond the boundaries of the law.”
– from video texts –
Each system has a threshold, a line distinguishing safety from danger. Crossing this threshold raises serious concerns about the system’s yellow lines, jeopardizing our survival. This tendency to violate these boundaries undermines all efforts at moderation. Essentially, it signifies a disregard for maintaining a safe distance from the ‘red lines’ of the system. Since systems are intolerant of transgressive members, they expel those who cross these lines, So this is the only way out of the system.
The interpretation of meaning is brought to a head in media processes of transformations; he combines them with provocative and playful elements. In the video ‘Following the Yellow Line,’ he implements a computer game as an artistic instrument. In the form of ‘hacktivism,’ he subverts the game’s rules by going to the extreme of all programmed possibilities. The avatar, a military game character whose purpose is to steal and kill, is forced to behave completely differently. Drunk, the hero staggers along the yellow line and has trouble staying on course. He lets himself drift and gets repeatedly caught in more or less absurd situations. For example, he enters a police station and falls from the roof. Luckily, he has many lives in the game. The impeded killer constantly turns into an artist by precisely re-acting legendary performances from Vito Acconci, Marina Abramovic, Chris Burden, Francis Alys, Yves Klein, Valie Export, and Gilbert&George.
In his work, Sin doesn’t just tell a metaphoric tale about the deep meaning of life. In his re-enactments, he makes a playful and refined reference performance as an art form and builds a digital monument to it.
Dr. Nicoletta Torcelli
Exhibition catalog of ‘Possible Worlds,’ Contemporary Art from Iran, 2017, Kunstraum, Potsdam
