The Chelsea Art Museum is pleased to announce the opening of its upcoming exhibition Iran Inside Out. The groundbreaking exhibition features 35 artists living and working in Iran alongside 21 others living in the Diaspora. The result is a multifarious portrait of 56 contemporary Iranian artists challenging the conventional perceptions of Iran and Iranian art.
In Iran Inside Out, 210 works comprising painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation come together, in a rare moment which allows visitors an intimate look into the people, both inside and outside a country that is more complex than images of veiled women, worn out calligraphy and what a handful of other emblematic images would suggest.
Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Iran Inside Out is an examination of the means through which a young generation of artists is reconciling the daily implications of cultural and geographical distances with the search for individual artistic expression. The exhibition offers an unexpected insight into the artistic energy of a culture that is constantly evolving as Iranians living both in and out of the country, come of age living and working in contentious societies. While half of these artists such as Vahid Sharifian, Barbad Golshiri, Farideh Lashai and Jinoos Taghizadeh reside in Iran, the other half including artists such as Shirin Neshat, Shahram Entekhabi, Mitra Tabrizian and Shoja Azari has been interspersed in the Diaspora.
Iran Inside Out explores the process of deconstruction and reinvention of both, self and art that has resulted from this cultural schism, often swinging between openness and dialogue, or seclusion and separatism. Ironically, contrary to one’s expectations, the artists living abroad often draw more on their cultural heritage, while those on the inside focus more on issues of everyday life without much regard to what ‘the outside’ views as specifically Iranian references. Yet, within these disparities, one element stands strong: the recurrent references, sometimes ambiguous, at times emotional, often nostalgic and on occasion satirical and even tragic to Iran the country, Iran the past, the Iran which has been lost and that which could be found.
The exhibiton will be traveling to the Farjam Collection/Hafiz Foundation in Dubai in March 2010. The exhibition is the second of three exhibitions under CAM’s EastWest Project in 2009 which aims to promote and foster cross cultural dialogue.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Inside Iran (35)
Abbas Kowsari, Ahmad Morshedloo, Amir Mobed, Alireza Dayani, Arash Hanaei, Arash Sedaghatkish, Arman Stepanian, Barbad Golshiri, Behdad Lahooti, Behrang Samadzadegan, Bita Fayyazi, Daryoush Gharahzad, Farhad Moshiri, Farideh Lashai, Golnaz Fathi, Houman Mortazavi, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakher, Majid Ma’soomi Rad, Mehdi Farhadian, Nazgol Ansarinia, Newsha Tavakolian, Ramin Haerizadeh, Reza Derakshani, Reza Paydari, Rokni Haerizadeh, Sadegh Tirafkan, Saghar Daeeri, Shahab Fotouhi, Shirin Aliabadi, Shirin Fakhim, Siamak Filizadeh, Siavash Nagshbandi, Vahid Sharifian
Outside Iran (21)
Ala Ebtekar, Alireza Ghandchi, caraballo–farman, Darius Yektai, Kamran Diba, Leila Pazooki, Mitra Tabrizian, Nazanin Pouyandeh, Negar Ahkami, Nicky Nodjoumi, Parastou Forouhar, Pooneh Maghazehe, Pouran Jinchi, Roya Akhavan, Samira Abbassy, Sara Rahbar, Shahram Entekhabi, Shahram Karimi, Shirin Neshat, Shiva Ahmadi, Shoja Azari
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- Abbas Kowsari
- Ahmad Morshedloo
- Ala Ebtekar
- Alireza Dayani
- Alireza Ghandchi
- Amir Mobed
- Arash Hanaei
- Arash Sedaghatkish
- Arman Stepanian
- Barbad Golshiri
- Behdad Lahooti
- Behrang Samadzadegan
- Bita Fayyazi
- caraballo–farman
- contemporary art
- Darius Yektai
- Daryoush Gharahzad
- Farhad Moshiri
- Farideh Lashai
- Golnaz Fathi
- Houman Mortazavi
- Iran Inside Out
- iranian art
- Jinoos Taghizadeh
- Kamran Diba
- Khosrow Hassanzadeh
- Leila Pazooki
- Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakher
- Majid Ma’soomi Rad
- Mehdi Farhadian
- Mitra Tabrizian
- Nazanin Pouyandeh
- Nazgol Ansarinia
- Negar Ahkami
- New York
- New York Art
- Newsha Tavakolian
- Nicky Nodjoumi
- Parastou Forouhar
- Pooneh Maghazehe
- Pouran Jinchi
- Ramin Haerizadeh
- Reza Derakshani
- Reza Paydari
- Rokni Haerizadeh
- Roya Akhavan
- Sadegh Tirafkan
- Saghar Daeeri
- Samira Abbassy
- Sara Rahbar
- Shahab Fotouhi
- Shahram Entekhabi
- Shahram Karimi
- Shirin Aliabadi
- Shirin Fakhim
- Shirin Neshat
- Shiva Ahmadi
- Shoja Azari
- Siamak Filizadeh
- Siavash Nagshbandi
- The Chelsea Art Museum
- Vahid Sharifian
