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| Iranian women and the hijab, the persistent stereotype - video | Iranian women and the hijab, the persistent stereotype - video |
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| I chose the photos for this video from the internet by searching the words “Iran,” “women,” and “youth.” I mixed these images with photos I found on book covers and magazines. I tried to see what was available to the average person in the public sphere about Iran. I borrowed some photos from two great photographers, Newsha Tavakolian and Abbas Kowsari, who generously opened their archives to me. The rest are my own personal and family photographs. | I chose the photos for this video from the internet by searching the words “Iran,” “women,” and “youth.” I mixed these images with photos I found on book covers and magazines. I tried to see what was available to the average person in the public sphere about Iran. I borrowed some photos from two great photographers, Newsha Tavakolian and Abbas Kowsari, who generously opened their archives to me. The rest are my own personal and family photographs. |
| Power of Cliche is a work from 2006. I thought it had passed its expiry date. But the issue of Iranian women keeps being revisited. Recently I find the cliched images more in academia than art. The cliche continues to resonate, even though we are experiencing a shift in the way Iranian women are used to represent Iran. | Power of Cliche is a work from 2006. I thought it had passed its expiry date. But the issue of Iranian women keeps being revisited. Recently I find the cliched images more in academia than art. The cliche continues to resonate, even though we are experiencing a shift in the way Iranian women are used to represent Iran. |
| Power of Cliche is a lamentation. When I made it I felt trapped between the two forces of fundamentalism and western liberal capitalism. | Power of Cliche is a lamentation. When I made it I felt trapped between the two forces of fundamentalism and western liberal capitalism. |
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