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Iran Inside Out Exhibition
Seeing as most of us can't make it to this fascinating exhibition Nihilista thought it would give you a taster... however if your viewing this message on a laptop in New York, then i strongly suggest you go check it out.
"Iran Inside Out," June 26-Sept. 5, 2009, at the Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10011
"Iran Inside Out" certainly wasn’t planned to coincide with the outbreak of a protest movement in Iran. But it is impossible to look at the artworks in this sprawling, jumbled, two-floor exhibition at the Chelsea Art Museum -- featuring 34 artists who currently work in Iran (mainly in Tehran) and another 22 who are Iran-born but work outside -- without thinking about what is going on right now in the streets.
The Berlin-based Shahram Entekhabi, for instance, offers his series "Islamic Carding," for which he has taken cards advertising escort services, and covered them up by drawing on black hijabs with a permanent marker, so that only the women’s eyes stare alluringly out at the viewer.
Tehran photojournalist Abbas Kowsari, on the other hand, presents a series of photos documenting the exploits of the first graduating class of female cadets from Tehran’s police academy (in 2005), showing women expertly wielding firearms and engaged in car chases, all clad in the very same conservative garb.
News thanks to www.Artnet.com