MOHAMMAD GHAZALI(1980-Tehran, Iran)2004 BA, Photography, Azad University, Tehran, Iran2004-6 Entrance to KunstHochschule, Kassel, Germany, for educations in Visual Communications Courses 2007-9 Entrance to Paris 8 University, Saint Denis, France for educations in Photography courses

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2016 Dredge, Emkan, Tehran, Iran2014 Night Is..., Ag Galerie, Tehran, Iran2013 Tehran a little to the Right, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran2011 Where the Heads of the Renowned Rest, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran 2008 The Red Ribbon, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran2007 Taking Notes, Silk Road Gallery Tehran, Iran2005 Sommer 2004, Silk Road Gallery Tehran, Iran2004 Black Cell with Conduit, Silk Road Gallery Tehran, Iran2002 A Forgetful Return, Daryabeigi Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2016 Extension. IR. tehran, Capital in CAPITAL letters,Triumph Gallery, curated by Homayoun Sirizi, Moscow, Russia2015 Crisis of History #3 - Beyond History, curated by Robert Kluiver and Elham Puryamehr, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands2014 Contemporary Iranian Photography, California State University, L.A., USA,2013 Untitled, Assar Gallery’s represented artists, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran 2012 A group exhibition by Assar Art Gallery’s represented artists, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran 2012 Color of Love, A group exhibition by Assar Art Gallery’s represented artists, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran 2010 13x18 Portraits, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran2009 Revealing Truths: Contemporary Iranian Art Photography, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait 2009 101: Oil and its Aftermath, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran2008 Closed Doors, Eyes Shut, Niavaran Artistic Creations Foundation, Tehran, Iran 2007 Untitled (slide show), Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran2006–8 Ey Iran! Contemporary Iranian Photography, Australia2006 If There Were Water (slide show), Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran2004 Self Portraits, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran2004 Iranian Springs, FNAC, Paris, France

BIENNIALS / FESTIVALS / ART FAIRS2015 Unseen Photo Fair, Ag Galerie booth, Amsterdam, The Netherlands2015 Paris Photo LA, Ag Galerie booth, Los Angeles, USA2013 Contemporary Istanbul, Assar Art Gallery booth, Istanbul, Turkey2012 Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia2010 Contemporary Istanbul, Assar Art Gallery booth, Istanbul, Turkey2009 Paris Photo, Assar Art Gallery booth, Paris, France2007 ULIS FotoFest, Istanbul, Turkey2006 The 10th Biennial of Photography, Saba Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran 2004 Paris Photo, Silk Road Gallery booth, Paris, France2004 3rd New Art Exhibition, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran2004 The 9th Biennial of Photography, Saba Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran

AWARDS / COLLECTIONS2004 First Place Prize, The Ninth Biennial of Photography (a 3-months research opportunity at Cite International des Arts, Paris, France)2004 Self-Portrait, Permanent collection, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art2004 Black Cell with Conduit, Permanent collection, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS2015 Contemporary Art from the Middle East: Regional Interactions with Global Art Discourses by Hamid Keshmirshekan, I.B.Tauris publications2015 Contemporary Iranian Art, Roots and New Perspectives by Hamid Keshmirshekan, Nazar Publication, Tehran, Iran 2014 Landscape Stories 2014 Amazingly Original, Contemporary Iranian Art At Crossroads by Abbas Daneshvari, California, USA 2011 Variatio magazine2011 Eye No.34, Mahriz Publications, Tehran2011 LA Photographie Iranienne, (Avec Ghabaian Anahita, Nadjamabai Mehrdad), Paris: Silkroad Gallery et Loco 2005 Private Magazine, Italy

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Mohammad GhazaliWith These Hands..., 2004

I am always preoccupied with myself, with knowing myself, but in this collection I have turned my at-tention to the daily commuters of Tehran’s subway system. The focus here is on hands, the warm hands of commuters, attached to so many bodies. The empty gaze of the passengers took me by surprise. They sat there without the slightest extra movement, without trying to establish contact, like statues, or icemen. What does this coldness say about us? Is it one of the byproducts of modern living? Is it a form of everydayness?

*”These hands have time after time made deals; with these hands you have felt the material of trousers or coats which you wanted to sell and you have with these very hands counted the money you received for them….Large sums of money have been spent by these hands; for the train, cigarettes and liquor. With these hands you have taken money from the black market and again spent it in the black market. Yes, you have done all this with these hands. With these hands you have made a fist in your pocket; with these hands you have opened the doors to luxurious hotels and dark dingy cafes; you have washed these hands in the waters of the Black and the Atlantic. These hands have taken many things but have in return given lit-tle.With these hands you have dug the earth and torn a piece of your shirt. With these hands you have forged leaves of absence and written on them the names of your choice….With these hands you have shot pellets of paper through pen tubes at the teacher’s desk. You have dirt-ied your hands with the ink of a fountain pen long broken. At one time you caressed your mother’s bosom while suckling; a time which you no longer can recall; with these hands you clutched your school bag. Your hands where soaked in blood, in blood that congealed and turned black; in blood that was his or yours, just like the hands of butchers; these very hands….”

* Excerpt form the short story “With these Hands” from the book The Green Silk Shirt by Heinrich Boell.

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