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Stateless 2014-2015

Stateless 2014-2015

2014–15
(Iranian, b. 1980)
Iran
Portfolio of eight archival pigment prints
Overall: 61.5 x 44.5 cm (24 3/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
Purchased with funds donated by Amy and Neil Viny 2017.110
© Gohar Dashti
Location: not on view

Description

Gohar Dashti’s Stateless series comprises eight metaphorical tableaux that evoke the purgatory experienced by refugees throughout the world today. “Hoping for a better life,” writes Dashti, “they struggle in a never-ending limbo. . . . The sky becomes the ceiling and the mountains become the walls of their new homes, because Nature is the only place that promises shelter, an eternal and everlasting refuge.”
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.110