Not A Typical Persian Girl © Atoosa Farahmand och Oscar Hagberg

Riding a bike, singing, or going to a soccer match. Everyday activities for most people but not for women in Iran. In the exhibition Not a Typical Persian Girl, artists Atoosa Farahmand and Oscar Hagberg highlight a highly topical subject: how the path for women towards greater freedom and greater participation in society has been severely restricted in Iran after the 1979 revolution. In the decades before the revolution, the women’s movement in Iran had made important strides. The right to vote and to take their rightful place in various contexts was improved, and more and more doors opened in society. But after the revolution, a series of laws once again limited women’s rights in the public arena, a crucial shift that laid the foundation for a gender-segregated reality where women were gradually deprived of basic freedoms.

The artists use the exhibition to highlight women’s rights in Iran from both a historical and contemporary perspective, and each work represents an individual story or several intertwined experiences that together shape a sense of resistance.

Not a Typical Persian Girl includes everything from framed photographs to installations and video works.

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