Thank you, Riot Material, for hosting this excerpt from The Artist, The Censor and The Nude by Glenn Harcourt about some of the remarkable contemporary artists in Iran whose work is informed by the censorship and/or disappearance of the body in public space.

Image: Shadi Ghadirian, Nil #1, 2008. Photograph, 76 × 76 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery. Shadighadirian.com