Ashkan Zahraei

Tehran Monoxide Ashkan Zahraei

This book revisits and reviews Tehran Monoxide, an ongoing project initiated in 2010 by artist and curator Negar Farajiani. The project has enjoyed an expansive scope: from setting up an arts exhibition at a school to engaging with people in a downtown pharmacy; from learning about the effects of house plants on air pollution to peddling plants on the street and making up a tree-garden of exhaust pipes in a treeless garden; and from teaching schoolchildren to being taught by them, Negar chronicles her ten-year project of starting with a simple question on air pollution in Tehran to accommodating green corners in classrooms and much tighter spots.