Lot 90: Shadi Ghadirian (Iranian, b. 1974)

Shadi Ghadirian (Iranian, b. 1974)
Like Everyday
signed and numbered '1/10' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
C-Print
59 x 59in. (150 x 150cm.)
Executed in 2002, this work is number one from an edition of ten

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After her marriage to photographer Peyman Houshmandzadeh, Shadi Ghadirian began to receive domestic gifts from her friends and neighbours who were trying to encourage her to improve her non-existent culinary talents. This inspired her to create Like Everyday.
Works from this series have been exhibited in the 2003 Barcelona and Lyon exhbition entitled Harem Fantaisies, and the New Shehrazades ( CCCB, Barcelona, 2003) and in Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East at the Saatchi Collection in London in 2008.