What separates the woman of yesterday from the woman of today, and the woman still to come? Where exactly do these lines fall, and where do we find ourselves in relation to them? This series questions those boundaries by bringing back the faces of women from the Qajar period (1785–1925) and the Constitutional Revolution (1905–1907), the moment when a new way of life began to take shape in Iran.
“Where do these borders really lie? Should art reveal them, or try to cross them? In my mind, past and present are tangled together. For me, a woman, an Iranian woman, a woman like myself, is made of all these invisible lines that divide tradition from modernity. They shift places across time, dress me in the clothes of another century, and set a Qajar woman beside the objects of our own day. Reality, as I see it, is not only what happens around us. It can also be the image I build of myself, and of what it means to be a woman.”
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