# Minoo Emami's "War Collection" covered in the Harvard Gazette July 02, 2015 Minoo Emami's exhibit ["War Collection"](/event/war-collection-minoo-emami?delta=0) is on display through August 19, 2015, at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Room 102 (sculpture), and CGIS Knafel, Fisher Family Commons (paintings). The *Harvard Gazette* covered the exhibit opening in a [June 24th article](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/06/vivid-reminders-of-war): > Emami’s paintings interrogate war and its lasting effects. For Emami, the conflict in question was the Iran-Iraq War of the ’80s, and the prosthesis is her husband’s. At 18, Emami married a wounded soldier in the Tehran public hospital, and his injury sparked her creative venture, an attempt to document “his struggle for a decent and normal life,” she said. > > “I never thought I would show these to anyone,” said Emami, now a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “They were just for me, just for us.” > > The paintings also record what it means to be an Iranian woman and wife. In her large-scale works — “War Collection,” on view at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies through Aug. 18 — Emami pairs images of prostheses with familiar household items. While hosting a dinner party for her husband and another veteran, she recollected that after a few drinks (“Yes, we do drink”), the men removed their prostheses and rested them against a wall. Emami was flustered as she moved from kitchen to salon, finding that their artificial limbs were in the way. > > “They’re always a permanent subject, and a permanent presence in the life of the person who is an amputee,” she said. [Read the full article on the *Gazette website.*](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/06/vivid-reminders-of-war) See also:- [ CMES in the Media ](/news-type/media) - [ Film & Visual Art ](/research-field/film-visual-art) - [ Iran ](/research-region/iran) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)