LIKE EVERYDAY (Iran, 2001)

Since her student days Shadi Ghadirian has been confronted with the dual position of the Iranian woman. On the one hand, as a highly educated woman, she was a child of modernity; on the other hand, she lived in a country where it was customary for a woman, once married, to spend the rest of her life in the home. She depicts this identity in Like Everyday, in which the faces of women in Iranian clothing are replaced by domestic articles. She derived the title of this series from the routine nature of the work to which the woman is condemned. Although in Like Everyday she works with Iranian clothing, Ghadirian says that the position of women in many other countries is no different.