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Developed over 2005 – 2006 with a small show in mind of 6 artists.
TEPP grant awarded for the development of the project through M&GSQ.
Curator Mandana Mapar travelled to Tehran in 2006 to confirm participating artists,visiting studios & galleries. Met with artists, curators, writers and film makers.
In September 2006 the exhibition was launched at Gold Coast City Art Gallery inconjunction with the first Queensland Festival of Photography.
• 18 artists represented• 44 art works including photographs, an artist book and video works
Challenges:sourcing sponsorship, lack of support from Iranian embassy Canberra,insufficient funds to fly artists out to Australia for launch, immigrationchallenges with visas and turn around time of applications
Ey! Iran Contemporary Iranian Photography Exhibition
Risks inherentThe exhibition was proposed to 16 different galleries
throughout Australia and to 12 different galleries in NewZealand.
Gold Coast City Art Gallery and Flinders University ArtMuseum were the only venues within Australia to havethe show.
Challenges:First time curator and sensitive subject matter, hesitation
on the part of the venues due to lack of a ‘targetaudience’ some galleries perceived that an exhibition ofIranian photography would only be seen by an audienceof Iranians
Timing – in 2005-2006 the new hardline government hadturned back the reform agenda set in motion by Khatami
Hana Mirjanian
Ghazaleh Hedayat Hamila Vakili Dadbeh Bassir Shadi Ghadirian Mohammad Ghazali
Amirali Ghassemi Leila Pazooki
Angela & Hossein Valamanesh
Bahman Jalali
Mohsen Yazdipour
Sadegh Tirafkan
Ey! Iran Artists
“94 years ago a photo studio was opened in Esfehan called Chehrehnama. This studio was oneof the most important studios in the history of photography in Iran. After the revolution I came
across the sign for the Chehrehnama studio which had been closed years ago.Someone had drowned with red paint on it in order to ruin it. From what I have heard women’s
picture without the veil were taken in that studio and maybe this was in reaction to that.” B. Jalali
Bahman Jalali, lecturer to a number of the artists at Azad University Tehran
Hossein Valamanesh
Hossein Valamanesh Longing Belonging 1997 C type photograph 90 x 90cm edition of 3. Courtesy the artist
‘beggargraphy to chador art’
Shadi Ghadirian, Untitled 1 From the series Like everyday,2001. Type C photograph, 50x50cm
Shadi Ghadirian, cover of monograph by Rose Issa 2008
Amirali Ghassemi, Coffeeshop Ladies No.1, 2005Digital print on photographic paper, 50x70cm
parkingallery.com independent art space in Tehran responsible for fashion shows, Poster design festivals & journalism
Cover of Iranian Photography Now publication 2008featuring Amirali’s work
Leila Pazooki, Objekt one, 2004
Ghazaleh Hedayat My Esfehan, 2002Type C print, 1/5, 28x42cm
New Zealand Tour2008 – 2010
Exhibition Services andMark Roach
Lopdell House GalleryWaitakere City Auckland
Aratoi Museum, Masterton
Hastings City Art Gallery
Pataka, Wellington
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Ashburton Art Gallery
Canterbury Museum
Whangarei Art Museum
Tauranga Art Gallery 60,000 Australians and New Zealanders will have seen the show by 2010!
“While big picture politics may be off themenu, there's plenty on display in Ey!
Iran to show that vigorous discussion oflocal issues familiar to New Zealand
audiences is part-and-parcel of life inTehran.”
Matt Nippert Eye on Iran, NZ Listener
Questions raised by the exhibition and reiterated for the national populationin an interview with Bryan Crump, producer Robyn Walker, Radio NationalNew Zealand
• Was it easy enough to find pictures of a high enough quality• Are galleries popular in Tehran• Why did you leave Iran• Would you like to return• How has leaving Iran changed your work• How do you see life and art developing in your home country
over the next decade
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/20080710
Iranian society faces a variety of challenges which may differ from those facing the Iranian government. Recent demonstrations throughout Iran garnered worldwide sympathy and support for the Iranian people in contrast to previously held global views of Iranians.
Iranian.com
Exhibitions like ey! Iran cancounteract the fear and uncertaintyheld by western society about thepeople of Iran.
Exhibitions can reach wide audiencesand help in promoting a betterunderstanding of different cultures.
This sense of understanding may beenough to curtail senseless wars andthe destruction of livelihoods.