Collected Memories: New Trends in Iranian Painting took place between 9-27 October 2007 at the ArtSpace Galleries, London. Over one hundred paintings by over thirty young Iranian painters were on show, some of whom had begun to establish international reputations and some who were showing internationally for the first time. A large number of the exhibiting artists subsequently went on to attract the attention of international collectors and major international auction houses. 

Collected Memories: New Trends in Iranian Painting sought to introduce the best of contemporary Iranian painting to the international audience. Timed to coincide with Art London and the Frieze Art Fair, the exhibition was a major opportunity to get beneath the surface of today’s Iran and become better acquainted with the work of some of Iran’s most gifted and exciting young painters.

Collected Memories brought together artists who “collect” and fix memories in their personal endeavour to describe their own Iran. The exhibition uncovered  a number of common features as artists aimed to grasp and fix places of memory through which today's Iranian society identifies itself. Symbols, signs, figures and other visual instruments were recurring themes which combined to render visible the historical, geographical and cultural items of the new Iranian generation.

The exhibition was produced in association with 12+1 Art Associates in Tehran.

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