In Between (Part II): So Far
October 15, 2017–March 30, 2018
5th Floor
ARTISTS:
Shirin Abedinirad
Bahar Behbahani
Samira Eskandarfar
Mandana Moghaddam
Bahar Samadi
Jinoos Taghizadeh

In Between (Part II): So Far seeks to recognize six women working to shape Iran’s canon of video art. This exhibition is a product of focused research on artists who use video to demonstrate a concrete artistic individuality, and further introduce character that is independent from cinema and other art genres.

The show is the second part of an exhibition series of contemporary Iranian art curated by Shahram Karimi. The first exhibition of this two-part series, In Between: Contemporary Iranian Art (Part I) was on view at Mana Contemporary from August 30–September 8, 2017, which featured artists whose work is not culturally explicit, but conjures cross-cultural themes. In Between (Part II): So Far adopts a similar approach, yet with a focus on a ten-year span of video art (2006–16). The exhibition offers six installations by six women that together serve to illuminate patterns, changes, and developments in Iranian contemporary video art.