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PARASTOU FOROUHAR & SHULAMIT ÇORUH

@ Bonner Kunstverein

20. May, 2012

Bonn

Artist Talk: PARASTOU FOROUHAR in conversation with SHULAMIT BRUCKSTEIN ÇORUH

May 20, 2012
Bonner Kunstverein

Part of the International Conference on Iranian Contemporary Art
May 19 – 20, 2012
Chaired by Anne-Marie Bonnet and Katharina Corsepius
Organized by Elahe Helbig
Institute of Art History and Archaeology / Department of Art History
University of Bonn

Artist Parastou Forouhar and curator Shulamit Bruckstein Çoruh have been connected through many years of discussions and jointly organized projects. This artist talk revolves around beauty and violence, withdrawals of tradition, as well as political images of power and powerlessness. Above all, it is concerned with mourning as a means of resisting the disappearance of things, the intransigence of the artwork as a revolt against the forces of oblivion, and the courage needed to fathom the recesses of darkness in one’s biography and align one’s work with them.

Following the murder of her parents, Parwaneh and Dariush Forouhar, in their Teheran home in 1998, Parastou Forouhar has devoted her work to opposing the violence of crime and its obsolescence.

In their talk, Shulamit Bruckstein Çoruh and Parastou Forouhar will broach subjects such as the irony of pure art, the veil of beauty, mourning as a means of resisting the disappearance of things, art as a political practice as well as the ambivalence in artistically dealing with dying, killing and being killed.