Art Paris Art Fair 2016
Shadi Ghadirian, Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour, Babak Kazemi, Hooman Mehdizadehjafari, Tahmineh Monzavi, Ebrahim Noroozi, Jalal Sepehr, Newsha Tavakolian
For Art Paris Art Fair 2016, Silk Road Gallery presented eight artists who invited visitors on a journey through different worlds and times. With poetry and humour, observation and a critical eye, and far from the usual stereotypes, each work told a story of Iran, past and present.
Shadi Ghadirian, one of Iran’s leading photographers, whose work is held by the Centre Pompidou and the British Museum, showed her 2015 series Too Loud a Solitude. Visitors could also discover Ebrahim Noroozi’s World Press Photo award-winning work, a selection from Babak Kazemi’s best-known series, and the work of Jalal Sepehr, a distinctive voice who has exhibited widely around the world. Newsha Tavakolian, a member of Magnum Photos and winner of the Prince Claus Award, presented a work from her acclaimed series Look. Tahmineh Monzavi showed a new series, while cartoonist Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour and the young artist Hooman Mehdizadehjafari were presented at the fair for the first time.