Leila Mesdaghi
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  • Work
    • Drawing /Paintings >
      • A and A'
      • Another Beautiful Day
      • Between Air and Water
      • Between Head and Heart
      • Between Water and Mist
      • Between The Flesh
      • God's Love
      • Gut and Heart Gushing
      • Injustice
      • Lee and I
      • Love Cannot Alter It
      • Nonobjective
      • Self-Healing
      • The Persistence of X
      • The Sisters
      • The Tongue
    • Performance >
      • Barzakh
      • Gratitude
      • Healing of The Heart
      • I Am Sorry for What I Said
      • Privilege of Removal
      • Privilege of Removal/ Screenshots
      • Unspoken Words
    • Performance/ Video >
      • Aah
      • A Love Letter to Safayar
      • Bunche Beach
      • Deeper Than Sorrow
      • For You I Will Die
      • Gratitude/ Video
      • Home vs. Home
      • I Am Sorry for What I Said/ Video
      • I'm Waiting : Love/ Dread
      • Khoda, Khod'a: God, Self awareness/ Video
      • My Beautiful Beard
      • Privilege of Removal
      • Shokhm
      • When The Clouds Cry
      • 126 Seconds
    • Mixed Media >
      • All Dipped In Warm Honey
      • "A Stand of Aspen in December"
      • Bloody Days
      • Iceland
      • Loud Silence
      • Love/ Dread
      • One-way Ticket
    • Sculpture >
      • Breaking a Habit
      • Cavity
      • Foreclosures
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Deeper Than Sorrow
2015- 2016
Performance/ Video
Tehran, Iran


I entered my family's old pool that has been sitting in our garden in Tehran for the past forty years. There used to be ten of us living there. Year after year, one after another, we all moved away to different places. By writing on the cracked and faded walls of the pool, I began a dialog between memory and perception, alluding to a universal longing. 

This piece is dedicated to my dear uncle, Madjid Mesdaghi, who passed away in 2001. I am writing the poem that has been engraved on his grave. The poem is in Farsi and is about the pain of separation and longing. ​


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