Rather than a sculptor, installation artist or ceramicist engaged in a somewhat mystic relationship with her materials, Bitta Fayyaz, born in 1962 in Iran, is an artist who works within a more performative and markedly social practice. Beginning in mid-1990s, her artistic interventions challenged the official definitions of art that were often circulated in Tehran at that time. Fayyazi struggled to show her work amidst an atmosphere of traditionalism, academicis and the influx of 1990s conceptual art from abroad. Fayyazi’s oeuvre has been relentlessly calling attention to the most vulnerable group in society. In 2000, in a three-storey abandoned house in Tehran, Bita Fayyazi participated in Children of the Dark City, a group exhibition i...