it's very clear here from, for example, rokni haerizadeh�*s work, how he does that. you look at this amazing painting, what are you seeing? you have azadi tower — which was formerly shahyad. and there you have people milling around, supposedly a day of feasting. but then there is a tightrope with a very precarious person walking across the scene. and there is a kind of carnal unpleasantness about the scene, with people eating ice creams and snacks. and somehow, you feel like everything's a little bit not as it seems. and then, we end with the beautiful animation by awish khebrehzadeh — "the white horses". she uses this ancient animal that we see from the earliest times represented in iranian art, the horse. here we see them galloping, you hear the clopping of their feet. and then, the gong signing off — and they race towards freedom. the land we know as iran has faced major challenges and change over the centuries. but the epic iran exhibition shows there is a cultural history stretching back 5,000 years, contributing to a national identity that connects iranians thr