ICUL CTION Special Edition ART A C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t R e v i e w Special Issue space and by inspiring the history and culture of the country where I have lived and grown up. You are an established artist, and over the years your works have been exhibited in many occasions, including your recent solo Fly Between Walls, at Hamras Gallery, in Tehran: how do you considerthe nature of your relationship — especially in public spaces — with your audience? By the way, as the move of Art from traditional gallery spaces, to street and especially to online platforms — asInstagram and Vimeo— increases, how would in your opinion change the relationship with a globalised audience? Maryam Dehbozorgi: The experience of my first solo exhibition from the "Flying Between the Walls" collection at Hammers Gallery was very enjoyable. Although I had participated in several group exhibitions before, it was a very different experience for me to face the audi- ence directly. One of the important principles and foundations of art is to communicate with the audience. Showing in public spaces such as galleries, gives the audience the op- portunity of physical and tangible communi- cation, and see the audience's reaction to the work at the same time can be very important to understand the effectiveness of the work. as sometimes the presence of the audience becomes necessary to complete the work; In the "Flying Between the Walls" exhibition, a yellow dress, which was one of the objects used in the works, was installed on a part of the gallery wall and The shadow of the audi- ence was falling on the dress as soon as they were in front of the dress by adjusting the light and it created a kind of wonder against the shadow for the audience and made the