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Photographer Soody Sharifi (born 1955), Iranian by origin and a mechanical engineer by education, has lived in the United States for over thirty years. Her work is concerned with the theme of the penetration of Muslim society by imported Western influences, as well as the natural evolution of that society over time. She has consistently followed issues of identity and its gender aspects, which are ever more poignant and relevant in the context of Islam today.

Soody Sharifi is an Iranian/American artist based in Houston. Her work primarily deals with the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in living between two cultures. In many of her series, she has explored the notion of identity and what it means to participate in two cultures from both an outsider’s and an insider’s perspective. Through different series, she investigates this concept as it applies to Moslem youth in Iran and US and their emerging concept of self-identity specifically how they accommodate modernity and the indulgences and exploration specific to youth within a very traditional society.Soody Sharifi has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 2004 and has been collected by Museum of fine arts Houston and Portland. In this series, Sharifi tells the story of cultural and political life in Iran as an amalgam of paradoxes and contradictions that stem from the area’s culture, religion, and system of government.

Persian delights A river runs through it

Persian delights blades

Persian delights escape

Persian delights Hammam

Persian delights Hoop'n hijab

Persian delights Heaven Can't Wait

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Persian delights kite runner

Persian delights Nude 2007

Persian delights Shirin and Farhad

Persian delights The prince and the balloon

Persian delights Two women

Persian delights Wedding

photographic montages by Iranian artist Soody Sharifi Sharifi’s most recent series, The Desert beyond the City Belongs to Me, provides an interesting counterpoint to her previous Maxiture series. In Maxitures, Sharifi inserted issues from contemporary culture into traditional miniature paintings by way of photographic collage. By inserting contemporary details into historical fiction, Sharifi creates new stories that depict everyday Iranian life and highlight the conflict between old and new values. In her new series, The Desert beyond the City Belongs to Me, her use of miniature figures is consistent, but the site of interaction between the contemporary and the historic has been reconsidered. Instead of bringing the contemporary into 15th-century representations, she imports miniature figures into photographs of contemporary Iran and interrogates the modern surroundings

The Affair (Kashan) 2012

The Desert beyond the City Belongs to Me Demonstration

The Shrine (Queshm)

Wedding day

Persian minatures

Odalisque digitale

Sound: Hassan Kasai & Shahram Mir Jalali - The Dialogue of Ney & Tar

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