MAM Project 027: Tala Madani
“MAM Project” is a series in which Mori Art Museum conducts experimental projects with artists from around the world.
This time, we visited an exhibition by Tala Madani, a female artist born in Iran and based in Los Angeles, USA.
TALA MADANI
Born in Tehran in 1981. Mother of two. She has participated in the Singapore Biennale 2011, the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), the Taipei Biennial 2014, the Whitney Biennial 2017, and the 16th Istanbul Biennial (2019). She has held solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2011), Moderna Museet Stockholm (2013), and Portikus (Frankfurt, 2019), among other venues, and is active internationally from her base in Los Angeles. From November 2019 to January 2020 she will hold a solo exhibition at Secession in Vienna, and in 2020 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Animation
In Tala Madani’s works, middle-aged, paunchy, balding-looking men frequently appear.
Meanwhile, in her new “Shit Mom” series (2019–), a mother and baby smeared in excrement are depicted. Though the motifs are grotesque, they seem to carry cynical, socially charged messages that draw you into their world.
The short animation works being screened alongside carry the current of painting while also containing quiet, chuckle-inducing elements.
