Biennale Images Vevey
2010
Like Everyday
Like Everyday
Shadi Ghadirian questions the status of women in Iran where artists are constantly dealing with censorship. In a country where women cannot be photographed uncovered, the Iranian artist mischievously played with the constraint by replacing their faces with kitchen utensils such as strainers, coffee pots or irons. Displayed at random in the streets of Vevey, like an advertising campaign, the Like Everyday series suggested reconsidering the notion of women as objects imposed as much by the Islamic regime as by Western society, raising the debate about the use of the veil in the public space.
