Divine Violence is a group exhibition project that I curated at apexart gallery in NYC. This exhibition is an ongoing research project which focuses the pre-revolutionary Iran to today in the Middle East through ordinary and extraordinary states of everyday life. The project aims to investigate the public spaces under patriarchy after the evacuation of women from the streets of Iran through the state’s Islamic regulations and policies. In this project, I focused on Islamic architecture, oriental studies, and represeantation of the oriental. Further, I explored how urban spaces can be shaped by hidden power and control mechanisms to oppress regions and erase cultural identities. Trajecting from the Islamic to the feminist revolution, this exhibition will provide an alternative reading of Middle Eastern history through the lens of Islamic feminism and feminist solidarity. Also, the controversial role of Middle Eastern women in the Islamic world will be criticised. It will reinterpret the narratives as well as the realities, testimonies, and distorted memories in Islamic feminist history in the Middle East, the geography of violence.

The exhibition intends to bring together an artist-lawyer, a researcher-curator, and an archiver-artist-architect who stand opposite the feudal, sexist, and patriarchal structure and have similar stories they have witnessed to reinterpret Islamic feminist history through women’s liberation actions.