Artist Projects from Spring 2011
05 Apr 2011, Posted in Artist Projects, 0 Comments
> Martin Krusche, Gleisdorf, Austria
Never Been to Tehran, was a worldwide exhibition of photography reflecting what 29 international artists imagined Iran’s capital city to look like. What you see here is a partial selection of over 300 photographs which were taken in each contributors home town, uploaded to an online photosharing site, and projected as a slideshow simultaneously in galleries and public spaces around the world (including the Parkingallery in Tehran, Iran). Participating artists were from Canada, New Zealand, the United States, Europe, Japan, and the Middle East.
In a time when news conglomerates regularly paint a reductive portrait of Iran, Never Been to Tehran looked at both the limits and the possibilities of the Internet to bridge a space between cultures. For the international contributors to this exhibition, the task was to search through their daily lives for clues to a foreign place, for the possibility that somewhere else exists right under their noses and that, like some clunky form of astral projection one can travel to other lands without leaving home. For viewers in Tehran, the project presented a chance to witness a travelogue-like mirroring of their globally projected image, taken from the daily lives and environs of outsiders. co-organized by Andrea Grover & Jon Rubin
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