Virginity
2004-2005
Installation, Dimensions variable
Arya Gallery, Tehran, 2004
Galerie 1, Cité des Arts, Paris, 2005

In this installation, Mobed used real apples, symbol of femininity, and sprayed a layer of white color on them. He arranged the apples in two divided spaces. In the first arrangement we can see a row of intact apples with plaited hair, symbolizing the innocent, virgin girls. Second arrangement is a square of cut apples with messed up hair, symbolizing the outraged, raped and abused girls. This installation is referring to the girls who turn to prostitution under the pressure of poverty, all over the world.

The First Show was disallowed in Tehran, So the exhibition was held again, in a new arrangement, in the gallery of Cite des Arts, Paris.