May 2014. Setting up the exhibition Unedited History: Iran 1960-2014, at the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, (then at MAXXI, Rome). Unpacking surrealistic, iconoclastic collages by Bahman Mohassess (1931-2010) with a view to presenting them as the first works the visitor sees in the exhibition. A storm of hybrid figures, severed heads and fantastical animals. The very least I can say is that a huge part of my life flashes before my eyes as I look at this whirlwind of collages. A monograph on Bahman Mohassess is to be published by Zamân Books in September 2019.

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