Art Community, Social Movements: A series of conversations: Rosita Sharafjahan

22 March 2023
Managing a gallery in Iran after the Islamic revolution is undoubtedly associated with the name of Rosita Sharafjahan. Sharafjahan, the director of Azad art gallery, tells about how to continue the path in the recent changes during the 20 years of gallery management and side activities affecting the progress of gallery owners. A situation where perhaps only dialogue and interaction are the ways for the survival of art and Sharafjahan is talking about the roughness of the art era from the past till today. The video and text of this conversation are available below.

At a time when art and especially visual art is associated with various challenges, a conversation with artists, gallery owners and other members of the art scene as those who have guided this private cultural and artistic institution, namely galleries, through various political and social ups and downs, such as Corona pandemy, is one of the first necessary steps to solve problems, although this art has not benefited from much security and smooth path even in apparently good days. The gallery has been active as a platform for showing and raising awareness of art to the society and has overcome great obstacles, and today it is about being or not or how to stay on this path, which part of it is also referred to the artists' way of working.

This interview is only available in Persian language.

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