Gohar dashti biography books
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Gohar Dashti
BCA Studio Resident
Gohar Dashti received her M.A. in photography from the Tehran University of Art in 2005. For the past 16 years, she has been making large scale photography with a particular focus on social issues. Her work references history and contemporary culture, as well as the convergence of anthropological and sociological perspectives; employing a unique, quasi-theatrical aesthetic, she brings to bear a diverse intellectual and cultural experience to illuminate and elaborate upon her perception of the world around her.
In her most recent works, Dashti has explored, through her highly stylized, densely poetic observations of human and plant-life, the innate kinship between the natural world and human migrations. Fascinated with human-geographical narratives and their interconnection to her own personal experiences, Gohar Dashti believes that nature is what connects her to the
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Gohar Dashti
Gohar was born in 1980 and grew up in Ahvaz, Iran, a city which was greatly impacted by the Iran-Iraq war. She graduated from the Fine Art University of Tehran and her subsequent work has been showcased in exhibitions worldwide. Gohar’s wartime childhood memories have influenced her early work in “Today’s Life and War” (2008), a series which uses surrealism to capture how the lives of ordinary citizens have changed due to conflict. One image captures an emotionless wedding-day couple who wait patiently in a car situated in a warzone. Despite being staged, the backdrop portrays a grim reality of the daily bombings that many Iranians endured. The series represents the unwavering willpower of people to go about their lives, despite the war seeping into all facets of life.
More recently, in series such as “Home” (2017), Gohar uses the power of nature. “Home” explores how nature conquers our surroundings and uses staged botanical symbolism to evoke feelings of power and be
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GOHAR DASHTI
Monograph written on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at Officine the Image, Via Atto Vannucci 13, Milan, 24 October 2013 – 24 January 2014.
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