In much of the world, the protests have been understood as a rebellion by Iranian women against enforced hijab rules or autonomy over their own bodies. What happened on the scene, however, shouldn’t be reduced to a woman’s obligation to wear a hijab. Rather, it’s about their basic requirement for freedom of choice and her bodily rights.
Immediately after the Iranian Revolution, Iranian women took to the streets to protest against the suppression of their rights by the young revolutionary government. Consider the 1979 Tehran protests for International Women’s Day. Also consider other facts that happened after the establishment of the Islamic Republic, such as the student protests in 1999, the Green Movement, the girls of Enghelab Street, and the Bloody Aban protests. Women have always played an important role in these protests. All of these seemingly forgotten voices have been brutally silenced. Today, they pulled out all the stops from the ashes.
Burning headscarves, cutting hair, chanting anti dictatorship words, dancing, hugging, singing together and so on are the symbols of the current protests in and out of Iran.
As Iranian artists who are living abroad in free society with freedom of speech, we have the obligation to save the recent events in our art and show it to the world.
The digital art which are printed as posters are the results of collaboration between Sava Ghodsi and Mehdi Daliryan, two Iranian Amsterdammers.
- There is our Store section that you choose a design of your choice to support the artists and the movement.
Any profits or donations from the event will be used to create and publish of a book which holds the recent revolutionary art of independent artists inside or outside of Iran with the subject of Woman Life Freedom.
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Great work!
I purchased 2 of your Mugs in the store and my Iranian wife loved them!
Thank you for your support.
I’m glad, you and your wife loved our designs.
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