Using the deeply incongruous history of Iran as a framing device, A Rain of Light and Death assembles a selection of works by Iranian artists from a range of generations and backgrounds. If a framing device both excludes specific ideas while focusing attention on others, each of the works shown in A Rain of Light and Death follow a similar imperative. Perhaps the only conceptual through-line of the presentation is heterogeneity itself: the exhibition brings together highly-varied works, scattered over generations and geographies, in order to reveal the numerous divisions and conflicts throughout their authors’ origins. Without recourse to a unified, collective consciousness, each of these artists—like each Iranian—carry a unique, densely stratified, often conflicted conception of home.

Artists

• -  Shirin Neshat
• -  Nikzad Nodjoumi
• -  Raha Raissnia
• -  Farshid Shafiei
• -  Sara Dehghan
• -  Afruz Amighi
• -  Ali Chitsaz
• -  Bahar Sabzevari