What on earth is Sassan doing promoting contemporary Iranian art in the south of France, and why is he so frustrated? Joobin Bekhrad finds out in the fifth episode of REORIENT Radio.
All posts tagged “art”
The Aesthetics of Exile
A look at the use of the Nakba and the resistance as subjects in contemporary Palestinian art, as well as thoughts on the aesthetics of Palestinian ‘liberation art’
Call to Arms
A conversation with Mona Shomali and Haleh Jamali, two artists exploring female Iranian identity in a collaborative exhibition at the Asian Arts Initiative
Witness from Baghdad
‘In this life I was stripped of my humanity, but I have retrieved what is more sublime, more noble, through my dreams’ - Halim Al Karim
Ordinary Lives
‘… This is what the people of Lebanon do. They keep going, rebuilding and restarting, no matter what keeps coming’
Pop Goes the East
Iranian-American artist Eric Parnes on his artistic journey, the 15th Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, and the influence of Western pop culture in the Middle East
Beyond Consciousness
‘I leave Fayez Barakat’s gallery on Brook Street with a feeling I can’t quite fathom … Then again, my head is reeling with the choicest of wines’
Shifting Sands
‘The difference now is that I feel whatever I do actually matters … Cairo is very vibrant now. It’s an amazing place to be an artist’
Mémoire d’Éléphant
Joobin Bekhrad on memory, martyrdom, and mourning in Iran, with reference to Sayeh Sarfaraz’s latest solo exhibition in Montréal
All Dolled Up
Rima Chahrour of Lebanese artist collective The Freaks looks at the use of dolls in the works of Zena El Khalil and Mohammad Rawas