The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Untitled #1
2014–15
(Iranian, b. 1980)
publisher
Image: 37 x 55.4 cm (14 9/16 x 21 13/16 in.); Paper: 40.9 x 57.3 cm (16 1/8 x 22 9/16 in.)
© 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.”- {{cite web|title=Untitled #1|url=false|author=Gohar Dashti, Robert Klein Gallery|year=2014–15|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.110.1