PAPER: 2005: Alternative Futures of Art History between Iran and Dubai

"The present of art is always in the past and in the future." So wrote Jacques Rancière. This sentiment extends to an art collection, which becomes a visual archive, a repository of the future of images. According to an Iranian artist in 1968, "Art can provide a vision for a way of living in an alternative future."

Cultural historian Shiva Balaghi (Professor, Departments of History and History of Art, Brown University) traces alternative timelines of Iranian art history in Mohammed Afkhami's Dubai-based collection.

This session was part of Art Dubai's Global Art Forum 8. More information at www.artdubai.ae

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