Join curator Morad Montazami as he leads a tour of Dusted Waters, the first UK exhibition dedicated to Behjat Sadr (1924-2009).

Behjat Sadr is now regarded as one of Iran’s most influential and radical visual artists. This exhibition brings together a selection of masterpieces by the artist never seen before in the UK. It reveals Sadr’s dramatic artistic journey against the backdrop of bitter political events and reveal her struggles as a woman fighting for recognition on a male dominated art scene.

Morad Montazami is an art historian and curator. His research interests are cosmopolitan modernisms and histories of the avant-garde between trans-Arab, Iranian and Mediterranean zones. He has published essays on Farid Belkahia, Bahman Mohassess, Behjat Sadr, Mohamed Melehi, Mehdi Moutashar, Latif Al Ani, among others. He curated the exhibitions Bagdad Mon Amour at Institut des cultures d’Islam, Paris, 2018, Fugitive Volumes and Faouzi Laatiris: Catalogue déraisonné at the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rabat (2016) and co-curated the exhibition Unedited History: Iran 1960-2014 at Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris and MAXXI, Rome (2014). He is the director of Zaman Books Publishing and its related journal Zamân. Montazami is currently working as a research curator at Tate Modern, London.

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