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Shadi Ghadirian, Como todos los dias

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La Fundación Municipal de las Artes de Valladolid & Contemporanea presents at the moment the first retrospective in Spain of Iranian photographer Shadi Ghadirian. This exhibition entitled Como todos los días (Like Everyday), is curated by Mario Martin Pareja, and includes more than fifty photographs and a video that explores all the Ghadirian’s series from 1998 to 2015.

Shadi Ghadirian’s work is intimately connected to her identity as a woman living in Iran. Her art also questions themes specific to women in other parts of the world. Her subtle photographs reveal to us an Iran of contrasts, between tradition and modernity. They question the role and the status of women in society and explore themes such as censorship, religion, modernity, everyday reality and the madness of war.

Shadi Ghadirian is considered one of the first Iranian photographers whose photographs changed perceptions of how Iranian art and contemporary society were perceived in the late 1990s.

Using a unique style of expression, she began contradicting the harsh and brutal images commonly seen and associated with Iran, challenged Eastern social dilemmas and how the world saw Iran, through the language of art. Her unique mélange of social subjects and taboos with art changed the course of Iranian contemporary photography and paved the way for many other photographers to approach and use this medium differently.

 

 

Shadi Ghadirian, Como todos los dias
March 1 – April 16
Sala de Exposiciones de San Benito
Calle San Benito, s/n
47003 Valladolid
Spain

http://www.contemporanea.org/

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