things I learned while growing up
Digital photo compositions (2014)
Like other Iranian girls, as soon as I turned 7, I was required to cover my body with dark veils in public. At school, we were continuously lectured and reminded about our religious duties, purity, honor, modesty, and self-denial; becoming a woman meant growing mute, silent, and covered. When I pursued art as a teenager, any representation of female body was simply banned in the art school, and the library was full of censored art books, where female body was savagely censored with thick sharpie marks and hideious masking tapes. "lessons I learned while growing up" consists of eight 8" x10" digital compositions. Each image is composed of two juxtaposing parts: the left section is a recreation of the censored artwork through which I learned about art, and the right section is a response/ interpretation/memory.
