Join Morad Montazami, Tate’s Adjunct Research Curator on a unique journey through Tate’s collection, across Lebanon, Iran and Syria. With special focus on works by artists including Saloua Raouda Choucair, Kader Attia and Ibrahim El-Salahi , discover how the artists’ own poetic journeys and visual experiments can reveal and inspire new readings of modernism and contemporary art around the Mediterranean and the cosmopolitan Middle East. Between aesthetics and politics, we explore not only how these works reflect regional issues and subjectivities but also how they interact with the context of international art in Tate’s collection.
Biography
Morad Montazami is Tate’s Adjunct Research Curator Middle East and North Africa, supported by the Iran Heritage Foundation. He was co-curator of UNEDITED HISTORY: IRAN 1960–2014 at Musee d’art moderne de la ville de Paris and MAXXI Rome in 2014–2015. He is the editor in chief of the French journal Zamân, which deals with Middle Eastern studies, visual culture and contemporary art.