Untitled (from the Qajar series)

Details

Shadi Ghadirian (Iranian, b. 1974)
Untitled (from the Qajar series)
signed in Farsi and numbered '7/10' (lower right)
C-print on paper
37 x 27in. (96 x 70cm.)
Executed in 1998, this work is number seven from an edition of ten

Exhibited

New York, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, Selseleh Zelzeleh, 2009 (another edition size exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 35).

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Lot Essay

"Perhaps the only mentality of an outsider about the Iranian woman is a black chador; however I try to portray all the aspects of the Iranian women. The duality and contradiction of life provides the motive for me to display this contrast: a woman who one cannot say to what time she belongs; a photograph from two eras; a woman who is dazed; a woman who is not connected to the objects in her possession. It was very natural that after marriage, vacuum cleaners, pots and pans find their way into my photographs. The woman, here, is convicted of a daily repetitive routine and for this reason I named the series "Like Every Day. The photographs are not authentic documentations but deal with current social issues."
(Shadi Ghadirian)

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