Category: Reviews

Speaker: Dr Hamid Keshmirshekan The British Academy International Conference, titled “Reinterpreting History and Memory: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA),” explored how history and memory are reflected and reimagined through contemporary art practices in the region, examining the connection between art … Continue readingBritish Academy Conference:Reinterpreting History and Memory – Contemporary Art of MENA (Part 1) | 2024

The photographic works of Parham Taghioff are featured in the newly published book The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary by Hamid Keshmirshekan, released by Edinburgh University Press. Part of the Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran … Continue readingPublication of Parham Taghioff’s Works in “The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary” by Dr Hamid Keshmirshekan

Asymmetrical Authority & Historical Kaleidoscope stages photography against photography. Parham Taghioff’s photography challenges the apparent complacency of image-making with the conventional narrative of Iran’s history, questioning representational historiography itself by rendering visible the movement it captures. The images take up the photographic representation of paradigmatic … Continue readingA note on “Asymmetrical Authority & Historical Kaleidoscope” Series by Milad Odabaei

I. Using history as a force in art is to coordinate, reconcile, and combine two far away realms, as one is rooted in knowledge and the other strives for truth. History is the realization of humans’ insatiable desire for learning, and then writing and waiting … Continue readingA Note on “Asymmetrical Authority” by Hamidreza Karami