From Tehran to Paris, the journey of an artist pursued by Iranian censorship

On Sunday, he demonstrated with his compatriots in Paris to denounce the regime in Tehran.

Alireza Shojaian still has his voice broken when he evokes, with emotion, the revolt of Iranian society.

The artist has been in exile since 2017: he fled to Lebanon, then obtained political asylum in France.

His wrong in the eyes of the mullahs of Tehran?

To be homosexual.

Worse, to claim it in his art.

Alireza Shojaian's work has been presented since this week at the Arab World Institute, in the midst of a host of artists from Muslim countries for the

exhibition .

They have in common their commitment to defending LGBT rights.

In Iran, homosexuality is punishable by death.

So in the cultural institution directed by Jack Lang, the popular uprising of the Islamic republic resounds stronger than elsewhere.

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Alireza Shojaian exhibits four works.

Its style is reminiscent of the great odalisques of the 19th century, when Europe was damned...

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