Construction Syndrome

Construction Syndrome began with rows of near-identical houses in my hometown, Rafsanjan, and later expanded to other Iranian cities. Since childhood, I have been drawn to lines, order and repeated structures. In these neighbourhoods, I found façades, windows and architectural details recurring with only minor variations. I began photographing them to examine how a single house becomes part of a larger visual system and how repetition gradually shapes the identity of a place.

The photographs are presented as negatives printed on transparent glass. Rather than treating the negative as an intermediate stage in producing a photograph, I use it as the final image. Its reversed tones make familiar buildings appear less stable and immediately recognizable, while the transparent surface allows light and the surrounding space to enter the work. This method connects the repeated architecture in the photographs with the reproducibility of photography itself: both the houses and their images originate from structures designed to be repeated.