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YOU CAN WATCH THIS PRESENTATION IN MUSIC HERE: http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/michaelasanda-1516812-contemporary-miniatures2-soody-sharifi/ Thank you! Soody Sharifi’s wide range of works demonstrates how the manipulation of images can sometimes reveal truths that are not necessarily self-evident or easily available to be documented. By blurring the line between reality and fiction, her work joins a wide pool of contemporary Iranian artists and film-makers who have adopted a similar creative strategy in order to express their different ways of coping with the challenges and contradictions of today’s world.

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Photographer Soody Sharifi (born 1955), Iranian by origin and a mechanical engineer by education, has lived in the United States for over thirty years. Her work is concerned with the theme of the penetration of Muslim society by imported Western influences, as well as the natural evolution of that society over time. She has consistently followed issues of identity and its gender aspects, which are ever more poignant and relevant in the context of Islam today.

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Soody Sharifi is an Iranian/American artist based in Houston. Her work primarily deals with the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in living between two cultures. In many of her series, she has explored the notion of identity and what it means to participate in two cultures from both an outsider’s and an insider’s perspective. In Maxitures series Sharifi inserted issues from contemporary culture into traditional miniature paintings by way of photographic collage. By inserting contemporary details into historical fiction, Sharifi creates new stories that depict everyday Iranian life and highlight the conflict between old and new values.

Soody Sharifi has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 2004 and has been collected by Museum of fine arts Houston and Portland. In this series, Sharifi tells the story of cultural and political life in Iran as an amalgam of paradoxes and contradictions that stem from the area’s culture, religion, and system of government.

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Maxiatures Series 2007A courtly love

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The term “maxiature” was coined by the artist as a distortion of the word “miniature,” the incorrect albeit common term used to categorize small-scale paintings included in Islamic manuscripts. Enlarged versions of the most elaborate of such paintings form the backdrop of Sharifi’s photo-collages, hence the name maxiatures. The choice of the Persian arts of the book as a point of departure is not casual. The creation of pictorial cycles in secular texts represents one of the most enduring and sophisticated forms of figurative art produced in the Persian-speaking world. As such, these images—drawn from manuscripts produced in the golden age of Persianate painting, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries—exemplify tradition not only in artistic terms, but also in relation to the values that they intended to celebrate. Respect of authority, chivalric codes, and examples of personal modesty inform the behavior of the characters in the original paintings, and symbolically define the notion of tradition in relation to which, or against which, the modern experience is presented.

Maxiatures Series 2010Boys Night Out

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Maxiatures Series 2010Boys Night Out (details)

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Maxiatures Series 2009Everybody plays the pool..sometimes

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Maxiatures Series 2010Fashion Week

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Maxiatures Series 2007Frolicking Women In the Pool

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Maxiatures Series 2010Leila and Majnoon

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Maxiatures Series 2007Boys Night Out (details)

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Maxiatures Series 2010Lovers Picnicking

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Maxiatures Series 2007Martyrdom

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Maxiatures Series 2007Movie set

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Maxiatures Series 2007New bride

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Maxiatures Series 2007Our town

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Maxiatures Series 2010 The Feast of Id

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Sound: Hassan Kasai & Shahram Mir Jalali - The Dialogue of Ney & Tar

Text and pictures: Internet

Copyright: All the images belong to their authors

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