Fading Fables (Zar-Afshun)
Artist(s): Naghmeh Sharifi
Date: June 24 to August 23
Exhibition Space: Vault Feature Exhibition
“Fading Fables (Zar-Afshun) is an audio-visual installation inspired by an old Iranian fairytale my grandmother would narrate to us as a bedtime story during the Iran-Iraq War. This tradition of oral storytelling has been one of the sole means of passing down old fairytales and fables from one generation to the next. With this project that couples my late grandmother’s narration with my animated illustrations, I highlight the role women have played in preserving oral storytelling traditions while creating the representation my generation of women lacked in post-revolutionary Iran.”
– Naghmeh Sharifi, 2024
