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Interview with the Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar : Their audacity leaves me speechless

Interview with the Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar : Their audacity leaves me speechless
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Carrie Mae Weems s Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me, 2012 - Artforum International

HAVE WE ALL BEEN SLEEPING on Carrie Mae Weems? The question might sound counterintuitive, considering the esteem with which the artist has been held since her emergence in the 1980s if not altogether off the mark, given the successes she has enjoyed in the past year. Highlights include a MacArthur “genius” award, a magisterial display of her “Museum” series at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the star-studded “Past Tense/Future Perfect” conference organized around her work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the last stop of “Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video,”

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The Ms Q&A: Activist and Artist Parastou Forouhar Is Fighting for the Iran That Could Have Been

Ms. Q&A: Activist and Artist Parastou Forouhar Is Fighting for the “Iran That Could Have Been” Parastou Forouhar’s art serves as a criticism of the Iranian government: “I chose art as the way of my challenge with life, my way of expression.” (Courtesy of Forouhar) Artist and activist Parastou Forouhar knows what it’s like to have one foot in the past and one foot in the future. Forouhar was born and raised in Iran, but in 1991, under threat of persecution due to her family’s dissident views and her status as an artist and woman, she opted to leave Iran and immigrate to Germany, where she still lives and works. Currently she is a professor of fine arts at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, and her work has been exhibited around the world.

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