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Previewing tonight at The Third Line is ‘I.U.[Heart]‘, a group show featuring the Iranian artists Mahmoud Bakhshi, Shahab Foutouhi, Arash Hanaei, Mamali Shafahi and Vahid Sharifian. Each of these young artists grew up after the 1979 revolution and it is their complicated relationship with the Iran of yesterday and tomorrow that is at the heart of the exhibition. The show also features a number of installations (including Mamali Shafahi’s ‘I.U.[Heart]‘ pictured above), which particularly interests me.

The discoballbreaker mixtape for this show features many songs of revolution and displacement. I’d still like to think it’s a hopeful mix though. Do you agree?

I.U.[Heart] at The Third Line, music by discoballbreaker

1. Selda – Ince Ince
2. Gil-Scott Heron – The Revolution will not be Televised
3. Gonja Sufi – Klowds
4. Cold War Kids – Hang Me Out to Dry
5. The Common People – Soon there’ll be Thunder
6. The Strange Boys – Between Us
7. Air feat. Beck – Vagabond
8. Gonja Sufi – Dust
9. Under Byen – Territorium
10. Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man
11. T-Rex – Children of the Revolution
12. Funkadelic – Can You Get to That?
13. The Chemical Brothers – Where Do I Begin?

Download : I.U.[Heart] by discoballbreaker

image credit : Mamali Shafahi, I.U.[Heart], 2009, 12 light boxes, each 100 x 150 cm