Iranian artist Shirin Aliabadi passes away
Shirin Aliabadi, born in Tehran in 1973, had her work exhibited at the Institute of Islamic Cultures in Paris, Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art and the Chelsea Art Museum. The Third Line Gallery announced the artist’s death: “she was widely recognised for her multidisciplinary practice, which looked at the behavioral hybridity of her home country’s youth and the women’s empowerment expressions that emerged in the face of adversity”.
Aliabadi was known for her photography of Iranian women, and was married to artist Farhad Moshiri. Read further here.
Documenta 14 participants address a letter to the Greek government
After the death of LGBTQ+ activist Zak Kostopoulos, attacked by a group of men in Athens, over 140 of Documenta 14’s artists and organisers – including Artistic Director Adam Szymczyk and artists Cecilia Vicuña, Ibrahim Mahama, Rosalind Nashashibi and Tracey Rose - have penned a letter addressed to the Greek government, amongst whom are the Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
The letter states that: “In order for the currently expanding culture of violence not to prevail, in Greece and elsewhere, ‘society must be defended’—the title of Michel Foucault’s 1975-76 Collège de France lectures is more than pertinent today. It is in this spirit, and in the wake of Zak Kostopoulos’s death, that we urge you […] to take an unequivocal position against violence”. Read further via Artnews.
Zak Kostopoulos — photo via Facebook
