Founded in 2006, Slavs and Tatars is an art collective whose practice is based at the intersection of culture, language, politics and identity, particularly within the area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China. Often presented as exhibitions, books or lecture-performances, their work blends humour with scholarly research . Resist Resisting God (gold) (2009) is from a series of mixed-media paintings with geometric patterns—a nod to the mirror mosaics found in Shia shrines and former royal residences in Iran. Islamic mosaic art took root in Iran after the Arab conquest of the seventh century. However, instead of using wood or ceramics, the Iranians employed mirrors (dubbed the ‘bling-bling option’ by Slavs and Tatars) in their mosaic works to distinguish themselves from the Arabs. The artwork, embossed with the title RESIST RESISTING GOD (only visible from a certain angle), highlights the mysticism exalted by Tehran’s revolutionary doctrine in 1979. The artists state: ‘Much like the Soviets exported agit-prop and socialist realism globally, Iran exports this craft as the aesthetic embodiment of its own ideology.’