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Admission to TALA MADANI: BISCUITS is free courtesy of Carolyn Clark Powers

Farhang Foundation is honored to partner with MOCA in presenting the first North American survey of Iranian-born artist Tala Madani’s paintings and animations. Bringing together fifteen years of the artist’s incisive work, the exhibition will highlight the often-absurd socio-cultural dynamics enacted within Madani’s art and, more broadly, the potent and combustible relationship between art history and global history. Madani’s paintings and animations are powerful meditations on the potential for art to reflect the deeply-seated cultural fears, conflicts, and desires of our present day. Rich in narrative and heavy in irony, they elicit curiosity, fantasy, and repulsion.

Tala Madani: Biscuits is organized by Rebecca Lowery, Associate Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Ali Subotnick, Guest Curator through the MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellowship, with Paula Kroll, Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Admission to Tala Madani: Biscuits is free courtesy of Carolyn Clark Powers.

Farhang Foundation is the proud Cultural Partner of this exhibition

PRESS RELEASE

Tala Madani is a world-renowned artist whose indelible images bring together wide-ranging modes of critique and satire, prompting reflections on gender, political authority, and questions of who and what gets represented in art. Madani has taught at multiple educational institutions, including the University of Southern California, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam, and Bard College New York. She has been engaged as a visiting artist at the University of California Los Angeles, Yale University, Columbia University, University of California San Diego, and Oregon State University, amongst others. Madani has been the subject of solo exhibitions at numerous museums worldwide, including Start Museum, Shanghai (2020); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2019); Secession, Vienna (2019); Portikus, Frankfurt (2019); La Panace, Montpellier, France (2017); MITList Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2016); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2016); Nottingham Contemporary, England (2014); and Moderna Museet, Malmand Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2013). Madani holds an MFA from Yale University.