Intro
Shirana Shahbazi: Meanwhile
Swiss Institute, New York
12 September–27 October 2007
Content
Shirana Shahbazi presents a selection of sumptuous color photographs from her growing catalogue of projects, and a painting transcribed from one of her photographs by a team of Iranian façade painters. Cross-mixing geographic origins and pictorial formats from the monochrome to the propaganda poster, Shahbazi’s installation offers an image bank of the placeless and an inverted iconography of everyday life.
With roots in the conceptualist photography that flourished in Europe in the 1990s, Shahbazi’s practice mines the gap between the epic and the everyday, testing the capacity of archetypal genres––still life, portrait, landscape, snapshot––as carriers of pictorial information.
