MEY Gallery‘s Reoriented, a group show featuring work by Maryam Amirvaghefi, Mehdi Mirbagheri, Reihaneh Hosseini, Zeynab Movahed, Aryana Minai, Sanam Sayehafkan, Fatemeh Kazemi, Shany Dvora, Phillip Neman and Kaitlin Banafsheha.

Presenting work by ten artists of Iranian origin spanning across countries and generations, MEY Gallery’s Reoriented seeks to demonstrate the range with which contemporary Iranian artists are extrapolating their layered identities. The show opened on April 18, 2023, but will run through May 16, 2023.

Maryam Amirvaghefi, Iran bans bodybuilding for women (detail), 2022. Mixed media on paper. 44 × 60 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Mey Gallery’s Reoriented is a nod to and rejection of orientalism, a concept that has long been used in discourses surrounding Iranian art. The term refers to a style of imagining, marginalizing, and controlling an imagined East. The works in Reoriented individually and collectively reject the stereotypical markers of exotification perpetuated by orientalism, thereby generating new perspectives on the themes presented and reorienting art history.

On view: April 18 – May 16 2023

What: Reoriented, group show
Where: MEY, 8714 Santa Monica Blvd., Unit 201, West Hollywood, 90069
Website: https://www.meygallery.com/