PERSIA REFRAMED

The modern and contemporary art of Iran has often been understood, and positioned by commercial institutions, as decorative or ethni c - hence the focus on calligraphy and veiled women. While at a scholarly level it has been characterised as a comment on the socio- political context of the country: repressed inside Iran and, among artists in diaspora, as a focus for a complex identity discourse. Viewing Iranian art as neither a commodity, nor an illustration of theory, Fereshteh Daftari approaches the modern art of Iran as a democra...[Read more]