Visiting Artist: Mitra Abbaspour

Soooo I did go to the lecture, and I'm forcing myself to write this review, because I really didn't enjoy it at all. Mitra is a curator at MoMa, and she talked about the history of photography in the Middle East, but I never got into it. She started with something I found very interesting: photos of Middle Eastern women holding what seemed to be portraits of someone, but she never was clear about what these photos meant. After that, I was lost. I didn't understand where she was taking the lecture and when she jumped from one thing to the next I couldn't figure out how they connected with each other. It really sounded like she was reading off a paper, and I realized later in the lecture that she was. I understand if she had a lot of information that she didn't want to forget, and it helped her stay organized, but she didn't show much personality in the way she presented her lecture. It may have just been an off day or something, I'm not really sure, but I didn't like it.