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Woven histories

The project ‘Curating and Weaving Memories: Critical Multimodal Collaborations’ is a cooperation between a research project of the University of Ghent, the Cologne International Forum and the Global South Studies Centre (GSSC) of the University of Cologne. It problematises the marginalisation and exploitation of women weavers in the production and trade of handmade Iranian carpets.
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Saheb-Jamal Rahimi has travelled from Iran for the exhibition at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum to give workshops, among other things.
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Simone Pfeifer from the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and the graduate programme ‘anschließen-ausschließen’. She is providing academic support for the project and co-curated the exhibition.