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The Third Eye is an exhibition of Iranian artists that culls its title from disparate sources. It uses as curatorial framework the cinematic vernacular for the camera, known as “the third eye,” with the notion of third space articulated by geographer Edward Soja, and that of the literary critic and theorist Homhi Bhaba. As a film trope, the third eye is the camera lens that captures the world independent from the human eye; in doing so, it can reveal to us its overlooked beauty as well as exposing the social disparity.

The artists use these open-ended narratives as thematic touch stones as well as reflecting on an ever-changing world where tradition rubs up against the contemporaneous, religion with the secular, and orthodoxy with heterodoxy. The Third Eye does not claim to be  representative of art being made by Iranians today, regardless whether they live within their country or abroad; rather, it serves to underscore the heterogeneous nature of an emerging contemporary artistic practice that evinces an artistic vocabulary rooted in a formal, social, and cultural crucible situated at a nexus between the past, the present, and the future.