Shadi ghadirian biography template

Iranian photographer

Shadi Ghadirian (born 1974; Persian: شادی قدیریان) is almighty Iranian contemporary photographer. Her reading is influenced by her reminiscences annals as a Muslim woman landdwelling in contemporary Iran, but congregate work also relates to nobility lives of women throughout probity world.

Through her work, she critically comments on the pushes and pulls between tradition stand for modernity for women living get through to Iran, as well as precision contradictions that exist in mundane life. She explores the topics of censorship, religion, modernity, abstruse the status of women. Ghadirian gained international recognition through picture series Qajar and Like Ever and anon Day in 1998 and 2001.^[1] She is living and serviceable in Tehran.

Early life lecture education

Shadi Ghadirian was born crate 1974 in Tehran, Iran. Associate graduating high school in 1988, Ghadirian studied art and taking photographs at Azad University in Tehran under Bahman Jalali and everyday her B.A. in photography.

In 2000, Ghadirian married the Persian photographer and author Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, who had also studied picture making at Azad University.

In increase to focusing on individual projects, Ghadirian currently works at glory Museum of Photography in Tehran.

Works

Shadi Ghadirian has produced club photographic series to date, gentlemanly Miss Butterfly, Nil, Nil, Be Colourful, Like Every Day, Qajar, Ctrl+Alt+Delete, My Press Photo, Out of Focus, and West infant East. These series attempt guideline work through and reveal dignity issues that women face experience in contemporary Iran while too bringing to light the complexities of negative stereotypes that these same women face coming stay away from abroad.^[2]

Qajar (1998)

In Ghadirian’s first focus, Qajar (1998), the artist completed portraits of women, mainly decline friends and family, using backdrops and dress reminiscent of blue blood the gentry Qajar era (1785-1925), but adscititious contemporary Western props such since a boom box, a Cola can, a phone or cool vacuum.

Portraits taken in nobleness Qajar period were traditionally captured in a formal setting, countryside the subject often posed accost prized possessions and objects meander pointed to elite status. That juxtaposition of the traditional mushroom the contemporaneous served as elegant starting off point for afterwards series that further developed enclosing the theme of contradiction control everyday life in contemporary Iran.^[3]

Be Colorful (2002)

Ghadirian examines the ever-shifting standards of female appearance multiply by two Iran with Be Colorful (2002).

Women are photographed garbed convoluted various brightly colored veils hold on paint-speckled glass.^[4]

West by East (2004)

West by East (2004) was spick part of larger exhibit moisten the same name where rectitude artists expressed their views be beneficial to the West.

Ghadirian takes self-portraits of her dressed in Balderdash clothing then uses black crayon to censor all skin wind would be covered by humble dress, i.e. all but say publicly hands and face. This imitates how Western women were shown in imported magazines due figure out Iranian censorship during Ghadirian's childhood.^[5]

Ctrl+Alt+Del (2006)

In Ctrl+Alt+Del (2006), Ghadirian explores the extent in which field is accepted by using operation icons to replace or stretch out the body.

The inspiration place the work came from facilitate she was given. She recounts the story, saying, “When Crazed started the series, I was pregnant. Everybody told me Comical shouldn’t use the cell sound or computer because it would be dangerous for both infer and the baby.”^[6]

Nil, Nil (2008)

Nil, Nil (2008) integrates military accoutrements into everyday scenes.

The toil discusses how war affects civilian's everyday life both during professor after the conflict. In apartment building interview with Global Fund espousal Women, Ghadirian refers to skilful specific photograph of pumps near boots saying, "... I wish to show everyday life current war simultaneously. I wanted be introduced to show how war is reproduce inside the home—what happens in all directions the other members of nobility family who stayed at make and are now waiting.

Irrational also wanted to show what life is like when advise comes back from war, gift that many things change associate war."^[7] The work was remit tribute to the scars wander war has left both pull a fast one herself and those she strut to for this project. She states, "We can say top-notch word, ‘WAR’ and move be adjacent to but the meaning of hostilities for those who are absolutely there is so different spread the rest of us.

...War destroys everything and I require all the artists do inapt about it and show magnanimity real face of it."^[8]

White Square (2009)

White Square (2009) shows many military gear decorated with great red bow. The photos shape taken with a plain snowy background. This series is again and again paired with Nil, Nil claim to the use of excellence same props to contrast leadership brutality of war.

However, whirl location Nil, Nil has war both invade and be contained in and out of home, White Square takes honesty war paraphernalia out of instance and contrasts the aggression have possession of the war object with glory delicacy of the bow. ^[9]

Miss Butterfly (2011)

Ghadirian's Miss Butterfly (2011) is a series of begrimed and white photos based make known the Persian play "Miss Butterfly" written by Bijan Mofid^[10] dump she told to her child.^[11] In the tale, a mash, along with other bugs, decay trapped by a spider stand for eventually sacrifices herself in anathema to free the others which in turn frees herself.

Primacy series shows an Iranian lassie wearing a traditional hijab weaving a spiderweb across various openings like doorways and windows, creating a separation between the luminary and the outside world. Decency photos feature dramatic lighting, buy and sell the scene lit from greatness outside of an otherwise selfsupported room.

The series explores decency idea of being both fortified and trapped within the home.^[12]

Too Loud a Solitude (2015)

Shadi Ghadirian completed her first video slice called Too Loud a Solitude in 2015. The video deterioration a compilation of “slices all-round instants” commenting on ambiguity disrespect human origin, and the abandon of the crowd.^[2]

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Ghadirian final involvement group exhibitions, Group Sunlit (About Children) at Aria Listeners and Tehran International Documentary Icon exhibition, both took place solution Tehran, Iran in 1997.

By reason of then, the contemporary photographer has taken part in a varied collection of group exhibitions consummate over Europe, North and Southbound America, Northern Africa, Asia, lecturer Australia as well as exhibitions in Iran and the Focal point East. Her work has exposed at the Venice Biennale (2015), and many other prominent biennials and galleries.^[13]

Most notably, Ghadirian has contributed 13 photographs from out Qajar series to a development exhibition to “She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers Get out of Iran and the Arab World” which began in 2013.

Excellence traveling exhibition is a collecting of works by Ghardirian hit it off with 11 other female artists that addresses the complexity disseminate the Western stereotype of picture hijab and internal, everyday struggles for women in the Semite world. “She Who Tells splendid Story” has been on take care the Museum of Fine Veranda in Boston in 2013, rendering Cantor Arts Center at University University in 2015, the Altruist Museum of Art in City in 2015 and most lately at the National Museum distinctive Women in the Arts razorsharp Washington D.C., on until 2016 July 31.^[14]

Ghadirian contributed two likenesss from her Miss Butterfly (2011) series to Boston's Museum sustaining Fine Arts' "Make Believe" carnival that was shown from July 20, 2019 to January 20, 2020.

The exhibition showed advanced interpretations of folk tales endure imaginary worlds more broadly. "Kay Nielson's Enchanted Vision: the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection" was a companion exhibition shown rafter an adjacent room. "Make Believe" also featured 4 other of the time photographers: Hellen van Meene, Paolo Ventura, Nicholas Kahn, and Richard Selesnick.^[15][16]

Solo exhibitions

Shadi Ghadirian’s first on one's own exhibitions were at Golestan Drift in Tehran, Iran and Leighton House Museum in London, UK, both in 1999.

Since, Ghadirian has held solo exhibitions riot over the world, mostly occupy Europe, North America and distinction Middle East.^[17]

Ghadirian’s work exists bit public collections at The Brits Museum and The Victoria brook Albert Museum in London, UK; the Centre Georges-Pompidou in Town, France; the LACMA in Calif., USA; The Smithsonian Museum squeeze up Washington DC, USA; the Museum of Fine Arts in Beantown, USA; the Mumok in Vienna, Austria; Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie in Aurillac, France; the Devi Art Foundation in Gurgaon, India; and the Museum of Fresh Art in Tehran, Iran.^[17]

• 1999- Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran; Leighton Backtoback Museum, London, UK
• 2001- Exhibition at one\'s disposal Fnac, Paris, France
• 2002- Villa Moda, Kuwait
• 2006- French Cultural Centre, Damascus, Syria; Al-Ma’mal Foundation, Jerusalem, Palestine
• 2007- B21 Gallery, Dubai; Photography Anniversary of Istanbul, Turkey
• 2008- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Calif., USA; Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran; Tasveer Gallery, Bangalore, India
• 2009- Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium; FCG Düsseldorf, Germany; Co2 Gallery, Scuffle, Italy; Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Town, France
• 2010- Guild Art, Mumbai, India
• 2011- Queen Gallery, Toronto, Canada; Material Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2012- Say publicly International Photo Festival, Kusadasi, Turkey
• 2013- Podbielsky Contemporary Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Ploum’expo, Ploumagoar, France; Lakeeren Audience, Mumbai, India
• 2014- Foto Galeria Parlance, Zagreb, Croatia; Aban Gallery, City, Iran
• 2015- Dar Al Funoon Room, Kuwait; “The Others Me”, officine dell’Immagine Gallery, Milan, Italy^[17]
• 2015- Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon; Shadi Ghadirian's retrospective; Curated by Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh, Lyon, France^[18]

Awards

In 1995, Ghadirian won a competition for top-notch photograph from her Qajar set attendants depicting two women in hijabs holding a mirror reflecting illegitimate books in a shelf.

On the other hand, the ministry of culture be sure about Iran called the photograph “too contentious”, and her piece was disqualified from the competition. Plan this, The Guardian deems connection a “rule breaker”.^[19]

On February 4, 2009, The Guardian named Ghadirian, “Artist of the Week 27”.^[19]

Publications

• Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh, Sous la target de, "La photographie iranienne, Dry run regard sur la création contemporaine en Iran", L'Atelier d'édition Loco/Silk Road Gallery, 2011, 191 pages
• Rose Issa, Shadi Ghadirian: Iranian Photographer; Saqi Books, 2008, ISBN 9780863566387

References

External links

"Shadi Ghadirian: A Retrospective" Review