We speak to the Iranian artist, a highlight of the Focus section from Frieze Los Angeles 2023, about her experience as part of the Los Angeles diaspora and making work in the wake of traumatic news from back home
Sean Burns speaks to the artist about the current protests in her home country and how the art world can better act in solidarity with the insurgents
Meridian Payseno talks with artist Malekeh Nayiny about how her whimsical reworkings of old family photographs uncover truths in imagined memories
A free exhibition at No.9 Cork Street, exploring the many aspects of violence in Iran and the Middle East
Or, why the Gulf conflicts never really went away
It’s a refusal to learn anything about a culture that could be obliterated
In further news: British Council condemns curator’s imprisonment in Iran; Australia’s first gallery showing all women artists set to open
In further news: Activists protest Luke Willis Thompson at Turner Prize exhibition opening; Helena Almeida (1934–2018)
Michelle Orange traces the recent history of Iranian films, from Jafar Pahahi’s Taxi (2015) to Mani Haghighi’s Pig (2018)
