Mitra tabrizian tehran 2006 nissan
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History Contested presents a compendium of books that reassesses the photographic history of the Middle East and investigates how early pioneers..
Mitra Tabrizian
ARTIST STATEMENT
Mitra Tabrizian, on Tehran ,Tehran differs from the usual representations of Iran: the social documentary or journalistic approach; the constructed images, often on a "big" subject (favoured by some photographers working in Iran); the "abstract" photography with a poetic slant; or the tendency to exoticize (in photography or video).
Rather, it echoes contemporary Iranian cinema, which often uses non-actors and focuses on an apparently "small" subject that is treated allegorically, alluding to wider social issues. In general, the work attempts to problematize the dominant representation of the East in the Western art world - that is, as victim or the exotic other.
Instead, it focuses on survival as a strategy of resistance.
I hope Tehran creates curiosity about the cultural context within which it was made, while remaining open to interpretation. As Roland Barthes aptly observed in his essay "Death