Anahita Razmi
This is not Iranian, 2015
Photography
70 x 50 cm
27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
Edition of 5 + 1 AP
The photograph shows the arm of the artist, tattooed in Farsi writing “This is not Iranian”, a statement that simultaneously shifts into diversified meanings. Playing with semiotics and shifting connotations...
The photograph shows the arm of the artist, tattooed in Farsi writing “This is not Iranian”, a statement that simultaneously shifts
into diversified meanings. Playing with semiotics and shifting connotations of the term/ phrase, object and symbolical value within the tattooed sentence, the work links a performative gesture within various cultural references.
into diversified meanings. Playing with semiotics and shifting connotations of the term/ phrase, object and symbolical value within the tattooed sentence, the work links a performative gesture within various cultural references.
