As women in Iran unite in protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, Soheila Sokhanvari’s upcoming Barbican exhibition has gained a new level of pertinence.
Mahsa Amini was not the first woman to suffer the severity of Iran’s current regime, nor has she been the last. Since her violent death 16 days ago, at least 133 others have been killed in the subsequent protests for women’s rights that have ignited across the nation.
The past two weeks have been extremely emotional for me. As I prepared a celebration of Iranian women and their art, the next generation was being arrested and shot while fighting for their basic human rights. I have shed many tears watching my paintings being hung, and listening to the haunting voices of the Iranian singers who make up the exhibition’s soundscape – women whose voices remain illegal to broadcast in Iran.
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