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Rock, paper, scissors and a hard place

Rock, paper, scissors
The series, on show at the Aaran gallery in Tehran, explores how individuals can be randomly caught up in events that turn their lives upside down, the artist said. Photograph: Jinoos Taghizadeh/Aaran Gallery
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'I am destined to choose the paper at the risk of being cut by the scissors, the rock that I am determined to wrap if only the scissors allow,' the artist explained. Photograph: Jinoos Taghizadeh/Aaran Gallery
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Despite state censorship, there is a vibrant art scene in Tehran. Taghizade uses holograms to emphasise how perspectives can change. Photograph: Jinoos Taghizade/Aaran Gallery
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The collages combine newspaper articles about the Islamic revolution with works by Hieronymous Bosch, Pieter Breugel and Jacques-Louis David. Photograph: Jinoos Taghizadeh/Aaran Gallery
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Outstretched hands are superimposed on contemporary newspaper articles from the time of the Islamic revolution in Iran. Photograph: Jinoos Taghizadeh/Aaran Gallery
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Taghizadeh’s work explore private reponses to public events, and the gap between what is promised and what actually happens. Photograph: Jinoos Taghizadeh/Aaran Gallery
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Jacques-Louis David’s The Oath of the Horatii - emphasising undying loyalty to the state - appears under a banner headline announcing the establishment of the Islamic republic Photograph: Jinoos Taghizadeh/Aaran Gallery
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Classical death masks adorn the top of a front page dominated by accounts of the torture and killing of political prisoners by the shah’s Savak secret police. Photograph: Jinoos Taghizadeh/Aaran Gallery
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'This exhibition stands to remind us of the aspirations of a nation,' said Aaran gallery owner Nazila Noebashari. Photograph: Jinoos Taghizadeh/Aaran Gallery
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David’s picture of Marat - the murdered journalist and hero of the French Revolution - contrasts with a report that the Iranian press, censored under the shah, was to be free under the new regime. Photograph: Jinoos Taghizadeh/Aaran Gallery
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'This exhibition stands to remind us of the aspirations of a nation,' said Noebashari. 'Censorship was supposed to end. But 30 years later we still have to self-censor.' Photograph: Jinoos Taghizadeh/Aaran Gallery
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