Iran: New Voices
Untitled Series: bedun e onvan 4
(untitled 4)

Presented by Iran Heritage Foundation in association with The Barbican and Magic of Persia

Vali Mahlouji

bedun e onvan (untitled) series presents a rare chance in London to see the latest video works by some of the best contemporary Iranian artists working inside and outside Iran and to hear them discuss their work.

The works provide a rich picture of personal and collective perspectives on aesthetics, language, emotion and culture.

Examining the contours of the global and the local, through addressing the question of identity, the series asks what does it mean to be Iranian today?

Showcasing the diversity of contemporary Iranian approaches, bedun e onvan 4 (untitled 4) screens the works of Mahmoud Bakhshi and Mitra Tabrizian, investigating the relationship between politics, society and religion in a transcultural context.

Mahmoud Bakhshi's Jesus is an assemblage of 8000 pictures taken with changing light at different times of the day. The video is a reflection on religious iconography as advertisement in the modern urban landscape.

In photographer Mitra Tabrizian's first film, Predator a hit man from an unknown Islamic country is sent to London to assassinate an influential writer who has sought political asylum in Britain. The film focuses on the unusual encounter between the two men; a writer who has given up his life's work and has lost belief in any political intervention, and a loyal soldier who is losing his loyalty. The hunter and the hunted have one thing in common; both have nothing to lose!

Mitra Tabrizian had her first solo exhibition at Tate Britain in August 2008 called This is That Time.

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