It was a shock, she says. Suddenly Sadaf Ahmadi felt here in Sweden like he did back in Tehran. “Like when the mullahs explained to me that my films could hurt religious feelings and therefore unfortunately had to be banned.” Sadaf Ahmadi laughs. Not because it’s funny. The laughter sounds more like a perplexed shaking of the head: She fled from the Iranian regime to Sweden, to the “shining land,” as she once calls Sweden. She is then invited to hold a critical exhibition against that very regime. And shortly before the opening they say, ah no, not. Safety concerns. In addition, feelings could also be hurt. “I was so stunned. I had to sort myself out first.”
Controversial exhibition in Sweden: Sadaf Ahmadi’s works on the protests in Iran – Culture
