Mamali Shafahi

Heirloom Velvet, 2021120 x 80cmPrice on Request

Details

MaterialGalleryLocation

flocked epoxy resinDastanTehrān

Description

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This artwork features a prominent female figure with an expressive face and flowing hair, rendered in a soft, sculptural style. The overall composition is centered around this central figure, creating a sense of serenity and contemplation. The work employs a muted, pastel-like color palette, primarily in shades of pink, which adds to the delicate and introspective tone. The artist's technique appears to be a blend of bas-relief and stylized realism, showcasing their skill in creating a visually striking and emotive piece. This work may reflect the artist's exploration of themes related to femininity, introspection, or the human experience. ...

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Artist

Mamali Shafahi

B.1982, Iranian

A recurrent thread running through Mamali's projects since his first performances in France in the early 2000s has been a focus on transgression and testing limits, involving a reversal of roles between artist and others - participants, the public, and most recently his parents - to see how far the latter will go in their new role as protagonist. Artists have special powers: to take part in an art project, people can be persuaded to step far outside their usual perimeters, abandoning constraints, questioning taboos, challenging their preconceptions… The roles of artist and model, producer and consumer, subject and object, dominator and subordinate... are thus perverted. The participant or viewer takes an active role and the artist loses absolute control over the finished experience: artists and participants are changed or even transformed - in some cases, for life. This process of interaction, the blurring of boundaries between the artist and others, the shifting locus of power, the potentially perverse possibilities it opens up, underpin all of Mamali's practice, whatever the issue he is investigating: taboo and breaking taboos, narcissism and voyeurism, intergenerational exchange, domestic perversity, addiction and self-destruction, the impact of new technologies and 'post-body' immortality… ...

Mamali Shafahi: Artworks

Mamali ShafahiHeirloom Velvet, 2021Price on Request

Gallery

Dastan

Tehrān, Toronto

Dastan features an extensive and multi-dimensional program focusing on the full spectrum of Iranian contemporary and modern art. Dastan's program includes Dastan's Basement, +2, ParallelCircuit, Zaal Art Gallery, and Dastan:Outside. In addition to hosting exhibitions, Dastan publishes artist books and monographs on Iranian art, features film screenings, performance projects, and other events. Dastan's original space, Dastan’s Basement, was established in 2012 in Tehran, Iran. The Basement is dedicated to exhibiting emerging and cutting-edge Iranian art. +2 is a gallery launched by Dastan in 2015. This space showcases established Iranian artists and masters. Parallel Circuit aims to open the way for artists standing at the interstices of based and experimental art. Zaal Art Gallery is an international gallery in Ontario, Canada. The gallery provides an engaging and immersive space for both enthusiasts and professionals. Since opening its primary space in 2012, Dastan has continuously hosted pop-up curated exhibitions around the city of Tehran under the title Dastan:Outside. ...