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Iran: Black or White

Group Exhibition

Opening on 6th September 2024
On view until 27th September 2024

Artists:
Morteza Ahmadvand, Shaqayeq Ahmadian, Morteza Ardalan, Fatemeh Bahman Siyahmard, Samira Eskandarfar, Shapri Behzadi, Parisa Taghipour, Esmaeel Davari, Amirhossein Shahnazi, Hamed Sahihi, Nastaran Safaie, Bahar Samadi, Shahryar Gharaei, Payam Mofidi, Koosha Moossavi, Parsoua Mahtash, Allahyar Najafi, Raheleh Nooravar.
With special thanks to Assar Gallery Tehran and Emrooz Gallery Esfahan.

Black is the absence of visual perception. It does not reflect, emit, transmit or receive. Black does not exist in nature.
White is the achromatic perception of maximum brightness and luminosity. White does not exist in nature either.
It is perhaps an impossible and wishful undertaking to have the contemporary art of our land judged and/or appreciated outside the preconceived notion and prevalent world public opinions. Does the world really need contrasts to create a distinguishable reality?
As a Nation we are neither black nor white. We like to be viewed away from the a priori clichés of right and wrong, and the prefixed notions of good and bad. In other words, we like to be seen as we are, in our diversity and complexity.
Nazila Noebashari