"PIX: The Iran Issue" group Photography exhibition at Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan / Gothe Institut, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 20th September to 8th October 2013

Time : 
20th September : 7:00 pm - Opening
21st September to 8th October : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm (daily except Sundays and public holidays) - Exhibition on View

26th September : As part of the programming for the Delhi Photo Festival 2013 and photography exhibition, PIX: The Iran Issue, the European Union National Institutions of Culture (EUNIC) presents the Unique Photography Night.
The Gallery (Siddhartha Hall) showcasing PIX: The Iran Issue will remain open for an extended period, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Entry : Free

Place : Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan / Gothe Institut, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
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Event Description : 'PIX: The Iran Issue' group Photography exhibition.

PIX: The Iran Issue, a group show and printed quarterly comprised of 14 established and upcoming Iranian photographers, working within and outside Iran.
The theme for the issue, titled The Interior, is derived from a cinema and screen-writing term, which is used to separate outdoor and indoor scenes. The photographs investigate notions of amnesia, censorship and identity through documentary, as well as staged formats. The photographers associate closely with a cultural bipolarity – living a double life due to societal pressure – thereby articulating their private lives and hopes in staged form. The ideas underlying the works range from encounters with the state, to a re-assessment of one’s personal life – an aspect that mirrors the desires of a society, constrained to limit its freedom(s) of expression due to political anxiety and cultural history.

The Special Features includes two photographers (Mahdieh Mirhabibi and Majid Saeedi) who have left the fold of Iranian society to become practitioners in countries that have been marred by conflict, namely in Somalia and Afghanistan.

The images include documentary and fictional narratives as well as art photography. As a whole, the issue seeks to show Iran's connection with South Asian countries by dealing with varying aspects of democracy. 

The photographers featured include: Azadeh Akhlaghi, Kaveh Baghdadchi, Arash Fesharaki, Babak Kazemi, Dariush Kiani, Mahdieh Mirhabibi, Ata Mohammadi, Reza Nadji, Ali Nadjian & Ramyar Manouchehrzadeh, Majid Saeedi, Mehrdad Asgari Tari, Nikoo Tarkhani and Gholam Reza Yazdan. 

The texts featured are by: Azadeh Akhlaghi, Mehrdad Afsari, Tooraj Khamenehzadeh, Meena Kandasamy, Deepankar Khiwani, Monica Mody, Mehdi Moghimnejad, Ehsan Rasoulof, Sara Reyhani, Rahul Soni, Saleh Tasbihi and Newsha Tavakolian. 

PIX is a photography quarterly that seeks not only to present photography in temporal, spatial or historical terms, but also in personal, self-conscious and aesthetic ways. PIX also seeks to investigate and engage with broad and expansive fields of contemporary photographic practice in India and outside, ranging from the application, conceptual standing and adaptability of photography to its subjects: its movement, transmission, appropriation and distinct relation to the allied arts.

The PIX team is Rahaab Allana, Nandita Jaishankar, Tanvi Mishra, Kaushik Ramaswamy, and the LUCIDA Collective.

Accompanying Event : Shuddhabrata Sengupta, in conversation with Iranian photographers Azadeh Akhlagi & Babak Kazemi at Max Mueller Bhavan / Gothe Institut, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 8:30pm on 26th September 2013

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