Body / Performative Actions
No. 17
A group of teenagers showing their body while the background shows a graffiti.
No. 20
A girl without hijab walking along a graffiti (Woman, Life, Freedom)
“Death to suppressor - no matter if its Shah or the leader” Zhahedan February 24, 2023
No.2
A girl wearing no hijab shows “fuck” to a board written, “My sister, observe your hijab”.
No. 16
The entrance walls of a gallery in Tehran got painted with red color as a sign of protest. the gallery was alarmed by this performance that any form of normality should be suspended. The performance got ironically interesting as a battle between city-landscape as an emerging form of art vs. gallery as the conventional place to show artworks.
No.1
7 December 2022 / Palestine street
“Walking in S’ boots,” who is imprisoned. Towards Art university security. Performing work by Mona Hatoum, a British-Palestinian multimedia and installation artist. The performance consisted of the artist walking barefoot through the streets of Brixton for nearly an hour with Doc Marten boots, usually worn by both police and skinheads, attached to her ankles by their laces. The performance was in protest against the arrest and suppression of protests in the Brixton neighborhood of London in the 1980s.
No. 22
A pool colored by protesters in the downtown of Tehran.
Zhahedan February 24, 2023 “Death to suppressor - no matter if its Shah or the leader”
No. 14
Drawing the map of Iran around plastic bullet traces on the body. It is also written: for my Iran’s girls/ for the imprisoned elites/ For freedom
The regime’s security forces have extensively used cartridges of shotshells loaded with numerous small balls or birdshots, or medium-sized buckshots as well as single large solid projectiles known as a slug to quash the protests across the country.
No. 19
Two women with no hijab are kissing each other in the square during the current uprising.
No. 5
A graffiti on a wall in Shiraz: “Your hair is the beauty of this street!”
