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It is -not- my Id!, 2013
Maryam Mohammadi

Bildunterschrift

As a resistance to stereotypes and racism, Maryam Mohammadi produced a series of self-portraits showing herself on a contradictory path to blonde and blue-eyed conformity. The work was inspired by a racist experience on the tram. The artist and art historian, who wrote her doctoral thesis on photographic self-portraits and feminism, uses a technique of over-staging and grotesquery to call attention to the impact of iconisation and standardisation of the (female) subject.