Conferencia online: «From Salon de Jugement to Revolutionary Workshop: The Invisible Road of Pluralist Visual Artists in Iran»

Niloofar HAERI (Johns Hopkins University) 

Jueves 9 de junio de 2022 11:00 

Conf. online: https://zoom.us/j/95854958742

Organizan:

Araceli González Vázquez y Yolanda Aixelà Cabré (DIVERSE, IMF-CSIC) y Montserrat Benítez Fernández (EEA-CSIC) 

Abstract: This presentation is concerned with offering an ethnography of a workshop/exhibition space that was established by a group of pluralist artists who were students at the Fine Arts College of the University of Tehran in 1978. The workshop founders at the time still had hope that the protests were going to result in a pluralist political system. That did not happen and the narrative of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 has ended up effectively characterizing the movement as “religious” and “Islamist” alone. Therefore, the many posters produced by this group and their efforts at being inclusive have mostly been ignored. We will look closely at some of their visual productions and try to understand and recuperate this part of the anti-monarchy movement in Iran in the 1970s.