Institute History
Description
In the hectic days after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art exhibited a series of paintings entitled “Report on the Revolution” by the emerging artist Nickzad “Nicky” Nodjoumi. Expecting it to be a warm embrace of Islamist ideology, religious hardliners who reviewed the show instead felt so enraged by the work that they tore it down, ripped it apart, and burned it. Nicky fled the next day in fear of execution. 40 years later, his daughter Sara Nodjoumi and fellow filmmaker Till Schauder investigates what happened to the surviving paintings, how this fateful exhibition shaped Nicky’s political activism for the rest of his life, and how its dangerous repercussions persist.
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