Shahram Entekhabi

Shahram Entekhabi (Persian: شهرام انتخابی‎), born 1963 is an Iranian-born video and installation artist.

Work

He participated in a group exhibition at the Chelsea Arts Museum, where his contribution was sex worker calling cards to which he had added full veils.[1] In July 2009, The New York Times wrote in an art review, Iran Inside Out, regarding a similar piece, Shahram Entekhabi draws chadors in black Magic Marker on images of dating-service models." [2]

Entekhabi caused a stir in Lucerne in January 2011 when he stretched red and white barrier tape across the city's Town Hall Bridge without first securing a permit, impeding traffic on a Friday afternoon.[3]

Foundation and Initiated projects
  • WL PROJECT, curatorial and artistic projects, 2006
  • i RAN Home, presentation of contemporary Iranian visual culture in Berlin, 2009
  • UNITY, contemporary art projects against racism in collaboration with UNICEF in Penang, Malaysia, 2009
gollark: Have you considered that restricting free speech to people you like somewhat defeats the point?
gollark: Some things are not very commonsensical. Especially complex longer term trends.
gollark: Apart from that quote people keep repeating about repeating history.
gollark: This is why we also have history erasure memetics. Sure, they may not actually work well (like the gender erasure ones), but there's no particular downside.
gollark: Names are also passed down from the olden times. People have these books explaining the "meaning" of every name they might pick for a child.

References
  1. Looking For Iran in its Art, Benjamin Sutton, The L Magazine, 5 August 2009
  2. Iran Inside Out, New York Times, 23 July 2009
  3. "Iranischer Künstler sperrt Rathaussteg (Iranian artist blocking Rathaussteg)". Neue Urner Zeitung Online. 28 January 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2012.

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