Azadeh Fatehrad

Migration presents critical essays, lexicons and conversations about an online Editorial published by Arts Cabinet at the start of the pandemic, which brought together leading artists, researchers, practitioners, theorists from around the world to present their research, experimentations and work in connection with the topic of Migration. A rich document of 60 contributions presenting an original perspective on the question of Migration is the object of reflection of this publication. The publication was conceived as an extension of the Editorial and has been designed to embody fluidity and continuity, rather than mark a conclusion. Authors Kate Keohane, Art Historian – The University of Oxford Francis McKee – Writer, Curator – Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow Jasmine Chohan – PhD Researcher – The Courtauld Mark O’Neill – Former Head of Glasgow Museums Anya Smirnova – PhD Researcher – Tate/The Courtauld Azadeh Fatehrad – Artist, Curator, Writer, Educator – Kingston University Maria McLintock – Architect, Writer, Curator – The Design Museum Leonie Ansems de Vries – Reader in International Relations, and Director of the Centre for Migration – King’s College London Svetlana Sequeira Costa – Founding Director, Arts Cabinet Featured and referenced Artists and Researchers: Sabih Ahmed // Alia Ali // Leonie Ansems de Vries // Laurie Benson // Lola Boatwright // Kirell Benzi // Cécile Bourne-Farrell // Clementine Butler-Gallie // Rohini Devasher // Mercedes Dorame // Maja & Reuben Fowkes // Gelare Khoshgozaran // Bruno Lopes // Mónica de Miranda // Hande Sever // Annie Webster Featuring special contributions: Ibrahim Ahmed// Ilona Németh // Zineb Sedira // Julian Germain // Oto Hudec // Szabolcs Kisspál // Fokus Grupa (Iva Kova? / Elvis Krstulovi?)//Dan Bustillo // Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida // Yara Monteiro // Ondjaki Nadia Yracema // Telma AnaV // Suzy Halajian// Daniela Lieja Quintanar// Sichong Xie // Hanaa Malallah // Chris Kenny // Hannah Khalil // Max Hirzel // Julian Klein // PositiveNegatives// Anna Virabyan

This volume explores the lives of women in Iran through the social, political and aesthetic contexts of veiling, unveiling and re-veiling. Through poetic writings and photographs, Azadeh Fatehrad responds to the legacy of the Iranian Revolution via the representation of women in photography, literature and film. The images and texts are documentary, analytical and personal. The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran features Fatehrad’s own photographs in addition to work by artists Hengameh Golestan, Shirin Neshat, Shadi Ghadirian, Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Adolf Loos, Gae¨tan Gatian de Cle´rambault and Alison Watt. In exploring women’s lives in post-revolutionary Iran, Fatehrad considers the role of the found image and the relationship between the archive and the present, resulting in an illuminating history of feminism in Iran in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.