The Drawing Room

Javaad Alipoor: Shopping malls and the foundation of the world


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In 2015, a glamourous young couple in Tehran died in a car crash when they lost control of their new Porsche.
At a personal level, it was a tragedy for the families involved. But the story didn't stay personal.
Their Instagram feeds became a flashpoint: a place to vent anger about the ostentatious wealth displayed by the children of privilege in Iran
Javaad Alipoor takes that event and its fallout as the starting point for a recent show, Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran, in which he examines questions of wealth, images, history and the Anthropocene.
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