Parasol Unit

The merger of more than one canon in different fields of art within the Iranian cultural territory has been studied well, like in the case of literature and cinema. Yet there is little depth when it comes to how the Iranian modernists reconciled the new arriving canons with their local frameworks of art production. Taking it from the question of 'Adab' as the mode of being for the subject of the Persianate world and applying it to visual arts canons, artist Sam Samiee will elaborate on the essential example of Adab, being the One Thousand and One Nights. Departing from that, the question is 'What would Shahrzad do if she had to paint?

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