- Title
- Untitled
- Date Made
- 2006
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 44 1/4 × 30 in. (112.4 × 76.2 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2016.241.1
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial Notes
In her series Destruction, Fataneh Dadkhah recorded decaying architectural elements in Iran, from worn wooden doors to walls covered in mangled advertisements to chipped tile revetment. This print captures a nineteenth-century mural most likely portraying a young Nasir al-Din Shah (r. 1848–96). As depicted in the photograph, the mural has suffered equally from the ravages of time and from intentional defacement, including graffiti. In its ruined state, the image of the mural has become a visual metaphor for the transformation of historical memory.
- Selected Bibliography
Komaroff, Linda. "Islamic Art Now and Then." In Islamic Art: Past, Present, Future, edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, 26-56. New Haven, New York, and London: Yale University Press, 2019.
