Hidden Wounds: Paper Bullets: Iranian Contemporary Art

Hidden Wounds: Paper Bullets: Iranian Contemporary Art
Cal State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center
Opening reception November 7, 2009

Aydin Aghdashloo, Alina Mnatsakanian, Yari Ostovany , Hadieh Shafie, Makan Emadi, Taraneh Hemami and Shadi Ghadirian


This exhibition discusses the topic of the Islamic Iranian Revolution of 1979, yet this catalyst is not the focus. Instead, the project covers the stories of a group of contemporary Iranian artists whose artworks explore topics from gender issues within an Islamic society, propaganda of small school children, loss of identity, to the sheer physical violence of the Revolution. It is the people that we focus on in this exhibition; their stories, their motivations behind their diaspora which also serves as a constant reminder of what is truly lost...a home. Despite the anger, frustration or sadness felt having lived through the Revolution of 1979, these artists serve as the example of still a longing to return to, not just a home, but above all a sense, a feeling of being home before everything changed.

- Elizabeth Little, Curator

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• art
• iran
• persia
• painting