Haleh Anvari

Born in Tehran, writer/photographer Haleh Anvari received a joint BA in Politics and Philosophy with honors from the University of Keele, Stratfordshire, UK in 1985. Her recent solo exhibitions include Al Riwaq Gallery in Bahrain and Etemad Gallery in Tehran. Group exhibitions include, Thirty years of Solitude at Cambridge University and Duomo Assicurazioni in Caserta, Italy.

A comment from the artist
Chador-dadar

If the chador is the icon for Iran, let it meet the icons for some other nations. Chado- dadar became a live installation in every city it was photographed and ultimately revealed as much about the nature of the people it visited that it did about itself. We made it to Dubai, to Taj- Mahal, the Amber Fort in Jaipur,we went to London and joined a peace protest, we visited Big Ben, then onto Paris, the Louvre, where we were thrown out because the Hejab is a hot button issue and to Istanbul where the only model I could find wouldn't wear the Chador because she was a secularist, so in Istanbul I became a model and she photographed!