Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet was recently the guest of honor at the opening of the Fragile Frontiers-Visions on Iran's In/Visible Borders exhibit at the Yarat Center in Azerbaijan.
The exhibition’s title is inspired by the essay Fragile Frontiers: The Diminishing Domains of Qajar Iran by Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, which outlines two types of frontiers: literal, physical separation, and metaphorical ‘cultural’ boundaries. The exhibition at YARAT sheds light on non-violent divisions, that nevertheless disrupt constructive dialogue, uproot collective consciousness and negate common history, faith and culture.
The exhibit is comprised of newly commissioned as well as recent works of 15 artists who view frontiers as precarious, ephemeral or frictional, arguing that no border – whether cultural, territorial or psychological – is completely durable.
More information about the Yarat Center and the exhibition can be found at:
https://www.yarat.az/index.php?lang=en&page=12&yrtMaincatID=12&yrtSubcatID=0&yrtEventID=2170