The Full Text of the Lecture Delivered by Mojdeh Tabatabaei, Founder and Director of Mojdeh Gallery, Tehran, at Université Paris Cité
The second day of the four-day Congress of the French Association for Semiotics (AFS) at Université Paris Cité will feature a presentation by Mojdeh Tabatabaei, founder and director of Mojdeh Art Gallery, focusing on the artistic legacy of the renowned Iranian artist Mehdi Sahabi.
Mojdeh Tabatabaei and the Book In Search of Meaning: A Semiotic and Semio-Semantic Analysis of Mehdi Sahabi’s Visual Artworks / Exploring the Meaning Behind Mehdi Sahabi’s Picture Series
Mojdeh Tabatabaei, Director of Mojdeh Gallery, emphasizes that over the past decade, art fairs have become the most powerful engines driving the global art market. According to her, statistics clearly show that regional countries, through a strategic and intelligent use of art fairs, have secured their position on the global cultural map. Iran, she notes, lacks nothing in terms of artistic capacity; it only needs a standardized infrastructure to reclaim its rightful share of the rapidly…
Mehdi Sahabi (1943–2009) was, from the vantage point of art—and through his paintings, sculptures, and photographs—a social actor, always alert and inquisitive toward the realities of his time. His artistic narrative took shape within society and among the people.
On October 17, 2025, Mojdeh Gallery turned 26.
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