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Photography, Color on Aluminium
Size: 19.7 W x 27.6 H x 0.1 D in
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"Rebirth" is a poem from the renowned Iranian Poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad which has been used as a texture for this photograph. Cursed Seal is a series of photographs combined digitally with religious or classical manuscripts, addressing the authoritative powers that control or regulate the female body. The female body and societal constructs of femininity have always been at the apex of the patriarchal structures, which continue to oppress women of all classes and races. Some of the texts are from the Surah Al-Nesa of the Qur'an, which defines the social and legal rights of women in Islamic countries. Other texts are from an ancient book called Alfiyah and Shalfiyah, an illustrated book known as the Persian Kama Sutra depicting various positions during sexual intercourse. These texts make up a part of the collection called, ironically, the “Pleasure of Women”. Like so many other books about women, this book is written by, and for the purpose of giving pleasure to, men. The same rule applies to religious books. For Afshar, there is no art without a mission: art is a transcendental tool with the power to influence and provoke, to act as a personal catharsis and eventually to lead us to a spiritual awakening and a new consciousness.
Photography:Color on Aluminium
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1
Size:19.7 W x 27.6 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
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Mahshad Afshar (b. Isfahan, Iran) is a filmmaker, visual artist, and researcher living and working in London. Her work mostly draws on the aesthetic of painful otherness, body, memory and politicised identity. She is a self-taught artist and drawing and photography has always been her passion and main medium for expression.
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