Exposition "Allégorie de la résistance, c'est être un Être"
Echoing the Musée de la Résistance en Argoat's exhibition "Résistantes en Bretagne", Galerie Livandour presents "Allégorie de la résistance, c'est être un Être": works by three Iranian artists on the theme of women's resistance in Iran, starting on March 8, a day of sensitivity and mobilization for women's rights.
Particularly oppressed by the Mollahs' regime since 1979, Iranian women suffer not only compulsory veiling and censorship, but also arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, not to mention abuse and torture by the morality police.
Since September 16, 2022, when the young Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini was murdered at the age of 22 by the police for failing to wear a headscarf, a huge revolt movement has sprung up across the country, with men joining the women's uprising: videos are multiplying on the internet, with women burning their veils, cutting their hair, chaining themselves up?
In the following month, tens of thousands of people and minors were arrested and imprisoned: 5,000 lost their lives, including 71 minors. More than 5,000 young girls, victims of the repression, were poisoned with gas in places of education.
Under the Kurdish slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom", the movement spread throughout the country, even into prisons, where Narges Mohammidi has been held since 1998. An engineer and human rights activist, she has been serving prison sentences for 26 years.
In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Many Iranian intellectuals and artists who, like her, support this revolt are also incarcerated in EVIN prison.
As a tribute to all these artists engaged in the resistance and struggle against this oppression, and in support of this cultural revolution for human values, Galerie Livandour invites two artists in exile to exhibit their work on this burning theme:
Hourieh Stier from Lignières-Orgères,
and Guilda Guillaumin from Ploumagoar
The exhibition will also feature the film "Wrise" by Iranian artist Parisima Kouklan, a refugee in Australia,
an account of the resilience of eight Iranian women.
Org. Pôle de l'Etang Neuf