Els Vanden Meersch
Subtitle: mastering the curtains
Series: APE -- #084; APE -- #84.
Publisher: Art Paper Editions; Antenne Books Limited
Published: 2017
Place of publication: [Gent]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9789490800611
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artistic Photography; Photography
Other titles: Mastering the curtains
Description: The result of a four-year research project by artist Els Vanden Meersch touching on two perspectives in Iran, one public, the other hidden. The first approach focuses on the content and implementation in the public space of the popular and politicised form of street theatre, Taziyeh. The second explores the secretive world of the Sufis and their difficulties within the current political policy. These seeming opposites share common ground in Iranian collective memory via social and spiritual resistance. Reflections on religion, private and public, transparency and control, are mediated through a series of images, from which the social potential of secular mysticism emerges. Exhibition: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium (10.03.-02.04.2017).
Notes: Title from cover.

Published to accompany an exhibition held at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium, March 10-April 2, 2017.

Based on a PhD research project funded by the Royal Academy of FIne Arts, Antwerp - AP University College.