- Title
- Fish on Tile
- Date Made
- 2001
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- Image: 19 9/16 × 29 3/8 in. (49.69 × 74.61 cm)
Sheet: 19 15/16 x 29 11/16 in. (50.64 x 75.41 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2013.162.2
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial 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. 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.
