Net Art
2026
Presented on Baleh Platform
This project focuses on the continuous capture and re-circulation of images taken from the official television broadcast of the Islamic Republic of Iran on February 11, 2026, during a specific time frame. The images are neither edited nor interpreted; they function as visual notes detached from the broadcast flow and reintroduced into another context.
The work introduces the term Hypertruth, coined by the artist, to describe a condition in which ideological “truth,” through media repetition and visual saturation, becomes so pervasive that it displaces objective reality. In this state, the image no longer represents reality but operates as reality itself — a dominant visual order that absorbs the viewer within it.
Rather than documenting an event or narratively critiquing media, the project performs a displacement of the image from its original context, exposing the mechanics of visibility. What is presented is not “content,” but the conditions of image production: framing, faces, crowd movements, repetitive symbols, and broadcast patterns. The images act as units within a propaganda system whose function is not to inform but to construct an immersive field of pre-defined truth.
The presentation of the work on an Iranian application platform — at a time when many global platforms are inaccessible — is itself part of the project’s logic. The official image moves from television into digital space, yet remains within the same media ecosystem; truth appears to change its channel, but not its structure.
Here, the artist does not interpret the image but registers its presence. Hypertruth names a condition in which the image is repeated to the point that nothing outside it seems imaginable.