Anahita Razmi: Sharghzadegi
In Sharghzadegi, Anahita Razmi (b. 1981, Hamburg)’s second solo exhibition at Carbon 12, the multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin confronts the term Gharbzadegi with the fictional term Sharghzadeghi. Used by Iranian intellectuals to describe the ill-fated relationship between the West and Iran, Gharbzadegi is a pejorative Persian term variously translated as “Weststruckness”, “Euromania” and “Occidentosis”. …