Opening Reception: Saturday, March 7, 2-5 pm
Guided Tour of the Exhibition with Mehdi Dandi: Saturday, March 7, 3:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: March 7 – April 25, 2026
Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased to present Afterimage, our first solo exhibition of work by Mehdi Dandi (b. 1988, Zanjan, Iran). Afterimage examines how photography, memory, and migration are closely connected. Rather than using the photograph as a reliable document, it is used as something fragile and moving toward collapse. Photography simultaneously records a situation while losing the context of the moment of seeing; what often remains is not the image itself, but its Afterimage.
The images used for this series are largely drawn from objects and anonymous figures encountered in public spaces, particularly the street, that refer to moments, narratives, and conditions often connected to a time before migration. These images were developed through a multi-stage process. Dandi’s practice begins with a straight photograph, which are hand-manipulated and re-photographed. Making multiple copies of the altered photograph, they are adhered in layers onto a stretched canvas. Using the technique of décollage, Dandi removes sections of images by cutting and tearing, to reveal underlying images.
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