Farideh Lashai

A retrospective exhibition including painting and moving image works by the late Iranian artist Farideh Lashai.

Born in 1944 in Rasht, Iran, Lashai’s stop motion animation works often reference iconic works of art, literature and film while commenting on political and social conditions in Iran. A student of German literature at the University of Frankfurt she is also known as a writer and translator, particularly of work by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht.