Fish on Tile

Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East
© Naghmeh Ghassemlou
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Fish on Tile

Iran, Tehran, 2001
Photographs
Chromogenic print
Image: 19 5/8 × 29 1/2 in. (49.85 × 75 cm) Sheet: 19 15/16 x 29 11/16 in. (50.64 x 75.41 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by Art of the Middle East: Contemporary (M.2013.162.1)
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

Ghassemlou has shown her photographs extensively in Iran but was largely unknown outside the country until very recently. Her subjects are primarily drawn from daily life in Iran....
Ghassemlou has shown her photographs extensively in Iran but was largely unknown outside the country until very recently. Her subjects are primarily drawn from daily life in Iran. In photographs such as "Fish on Tile" (2 versions) she has placed a fish bowl on top of a 17th-century tile from Isfahan. In each instance, the moment she captures is the one in which the swimming fish perfectly echoes or compliments the curved plants on the painted tile, revealing her superb sense of composition.

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