This catalog was launched within the scope of the exhibition curated by Suzanne Cotter, on display at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art from October 9, 2014 to January 11, 2015.

From the double perspective of art criticism and history, this is a unique work by the Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (Qazvin, 1924).

Essays by curator Suzanne Cotter, cultural historian Shiva Balaghi and art historian and critic Media Farzin analyze Monir's work and its evolution from the 1970s to the present, in the context of architectural and decorative arts traditions. and the cosmopolitan world of contemporary art that has always been yours.