Striving to hold onto something that is born to die eventually, is a vain and difficult task. Decay changes the colors, disfigures the figures, and creates a new definition of decline, and in the middle of this, pests make the decay process of new things possible. Pests desiccate a young garden, neutralize a fertile tree, dilapidate a house, rhetoricize a library, chew the texts word by word, and tear up the cloths eventually. Intentional elements like war and pillage, and unintentional elements like fire, flood, and earthquakes are borderlines between permanence or freshness and decay and decline. The Persepolis once was a glorious palace and now it is only ruins after the wars and pillages. Numerous masterfully illustrated and hand-written old books are chewed by termites and old clothing items and curtains are filled with holes and old stains. “Tattered Masterpieces” is part of Negar Farajiani's new series in which she intentionally deforms images or objects by manipulating and accelerating their decline in a way that when you look at the result, it is an infested and decayed object in different layers. 2016-2022