PROMISES OF EVER-COMING PROSPERITY

نوید آبادانی

Sepideh Behrouzian’s "Promises of Ever-Coming Prosperity" is a long-term exploration of development thinking in Iran. It navigates the temporal dimensions of linear progress ushered in by the forces of modernisation, both imperial and colonial, of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her research investigates how the colonisation of land and time are woven together, looking at how the landscape is shaped through the imposition of a linear progressive temporality. Through the situated storytelling of "Promises of Ever-Coming Prosperity", a critical examination unfolds, revealing the latent, invisible consequences of societal and environmental transformations, connecting improbable relations in a series of video essays.