Past Exhibition / Shirin Aliabadi
Beyond Black
November 09 - November 26, 2005
In the context of Iran, both from the point of view of the west as from within, the very act of representing or identifying oneself inevitably becomes a political act...especially for a woman.
In essence, what the five female photographers in Beyond Black do is vocalize individual perspectives that tear us away from collective narratives and easy generalisations; be they coming from a western eurocentric perspective, or a regional gender-biased agenda.