SKYHIGH IS MY PLACE

The first in-depth monograph on the Iranian-born artist Shahpour Pouyan, Skyhigh is my place brings together key texts and images on the artist s practice.

The publication departs from Shahpour Pouyan s ambitious installation Skyhigh is my place at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Belgium, which partially filled MDD s main exhibition space with wheat and inverted a largescale replica of a military control tower in its patio. By uniting these two elements, Pouyan summons the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and specifically his father s involvement in this historic moment. At the height of the Revolution, Pouyan s father, an electronic engineer for jet fighters, took part in a collective effort to plant wheat on his military base near Isfahan. It offers an in-depth view of Shahpour Pouyan s recent work and notably contains:

• An essay by art historian and critic Media Farzin, analysing the historic and architectural underpinnings of Skyhigh is my place, placing it within Pouyan s wider oeuvre
• A conversation between art historian Pepe Karmel and Shahpour Pouyan, discussing the artist s recollections of his father s involvement in the 1979 revolution and the work s relation to wider artistic and architectural movements
• Extensive photographic documentation of the installation at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
• Extensive documentation of the artist s recent work

Text in English and Dutch.