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Prostitute 1975-77
AOTFD (2023)

A Utopian Stage: Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis
AOTFD / Afterall Books: Exhibition Histories (2023)


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Hrair Sarkissian: The Other Side of Silence
Published on the occasion of Hrair Sarkissian’s
eponymous touring exhibition organized by
Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm;
the Bonnefanten, Maastricht;
and Sharjah Art Foundation.

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Jason Seife: A Small Spark vs A Great Forest (Unit London: London, 2021) Essay on the work of Jason Seife.

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Baalbek: Archives of an Eternity (Beirut: Sursock Museum, 2019). Exhibition catalogue

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The Fantastical Polaroids of Kaveh Golestan
in In the Fields of Empty Days, ed. Erica Wrightson and Claire Crighton (Los Angeles: Prestel Publishing and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2018), 45-47, 128-129. Contributions by Linda Komaroff, Sheila R. Canby, Sheida Dayani, Hamid Keshmirshekan, Hani Khafipour, Vali Mahlouji, Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan, Shadishafiei Javadi, Sandra Williams

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Aspiration, Hope Dissent: The Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis as a Temporary Autonomous Zone
in The Tehran Modern. A Reader about Art in Iran since 1960. (Berlin: Neue Nationalgalerie, 2016)

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Prostitute: 1975-77
in Photo London 2015, (London: Photo London, 2015), 227-233.

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Maskhara
(London: Niccolo Sprovieri Gallery, 2014). Catalogue essay on the work of Avish Khebrehzadeh.

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Kaveh Golestan: The Citadel
(Amsterdam: Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, 2014).

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Heterotopian Spaces of Kiarostami
(Hong Kong: Rossi & Rossi Gallery, 2013). Catalogue essay on the work of Abbas Kiarostami.

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Symbols of Transformation
Broadsheet Magazine, Vol 42.2, December 2013: 287-88

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Salto
(Dubai: Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, 2012). Catalogue essay on the work of Ahmad Amin Nazar.

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Little Girl Is Not Afraid of the Dark
(Paris: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 2011)

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Avish Khebrehzadeh, “Where Do We Go From Here?
(London: Niccolo Sprovieri Gallery, 2011). Catalogue essay on the work of Avish Khebrehzadeh.

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Justice for Europe’s Forgotten Parent
Co-authored with Hywel Williams. The Guardian, London (2001)

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Archaeology of the Final Decade: The Case of the Citadel
in Institution as Praxis, ed. Carolina Rito and Bill Balaskas (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2020), 88-109.  Contributions by Bill Balaskas, Michael Birchall, Mélanie Bouteloup, Carolina Cerón, Anthony Downey, Pujita Guha and Abhijan Toto for The Forest Curriculum, Joasia Krysa, Vali Mahlouji, Je Yun Moon, Andrea Phillips, Emily Pringle, Carolina Rito, Ruangrupa (Farid Rakun Andleonhard Bartolomeus), Nora Sternfeld, Sian Vaughan

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Recreating the Citadel
London Middle East Institute Magazine, October/November 2018, 13-14.

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The Super-Modernism of the Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis
di’van: A Journal of Accounts, No. 2 (2017): 42-53

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From Studio to Street: The Intimate Gaze of Kaveh Golestan
di’van: A Journal of Accounts, No.1 (2016): 52-64.

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Az Div o Dad: Fantastical Polaroids of Kaveh Golestan
Curated by Vali Mahlouji. (London: AOTFD Publishing, 2015)

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Recreating Shahr-e No, The Intimate Politics of the Marginal

The Contested Space: The Metapolitics of The Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis

in Unedited History: Iran 1960-2014, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris (2014) [French]

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Perspectives on the Shiraz Arts Festival. A Radical Third World Rewriting
Asia Society Museum online (2013)

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Mitra Tabrizian, Silent Protest
(New York: Leila Heller Gallery, 2012). Catalogue essay on the work of Mitra Tabrizian.

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Fictionville: A Place Beyond Good and Evil – Reflections on Violence and the Society of Spectacle
(Sharjah: Sharjah Biennial, 2011). Catalogue essay on the work of Rokni Haerizadeh.

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Whip of a Foe
(Paris: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 2010). Catalogue essay on the work of Rokni Haerizadeh.

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Oh Victory! You Forgot Your Underwear
in Oh Victory! You Forgot Your Underwear (Dubai: B21 Gallery, 2009). Catalogue essay on the work of Rokni Haerizadeh

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Symbols of Transformation
Raad O Bargh, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Paris (2009)

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“A Utopian Stage” and “A Cultural Atlas” in Solidarity Spores (Gwangju: Asia Culture Centre, 2020). Exhibition Catalogue

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A Utopian Stage
in Dhaka Art Summit ’18 Exhibition Guide, ed. Diana Campbell Betancourt, Emma Sumner and Neha Choksi (Dhaka: Dhaka Art Summit ’18, Samdani Art Foundation, 2018), 143-153

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From Radical to Radial: Perspectives on the Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis
Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative online, Guggenheim Museum New York (2017)

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I know why the rebel sings
(Amsterdam: Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, 2015). Catalogue essay on the work of Newsha Tavakolian

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Recreating Shahr-e No, The Intimate Politics of the Marginal

The Contested Space: The Metapolitics of The Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis

in Unedited History: Iran 1960-2014, MAXXI Museum (2014) [Italian with English translation]

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Perspectives on the Shiraz Arts Festival. A Radical Third World Rewriting
in Iran Modern, ed. Fereshteh Daftari and Layla Diba (New York: Asia Society Museum and Yale University Press, 2013), 87-91.

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Ramin Haerizadeh: The Rampaging Self-Portraitist
in Ramin Haerizadeh: “…But I prefer dogs with uncropped tails”, (Paris: Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Éditions Dilecta, 2012), 1-13. Catalogue essay on the work of Ramin Haerizadeh.

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I Put It There, You Name It
(Dubai: Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, 2012). Catalogue essay on the work of Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian.

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Hrair Sarkissian, The Act of Witnessing
Canvas, Issue 4, vol. 3 (2012): 90-97

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Beware of this Image: Ramin Rampage Rides Again
(Sharjah: Sharjah Biennial, 2011). Catalogue essay on the work of Ramin Haerizadeh

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Memories, Dreams, Obsessions: sketching a portrait of Y. Z. Kami”  in Y.Z. Kami: Beyond Silence, ed. Anna Kafetsi (Athens: National Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009).

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The Endurance of a Living Art
London Middle East Institute Magazine, Vol 6. no. 1, June 2009, 8-9

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