The drawing “Supressed [unterdrückt]” originated in Teheran in the late 90s. It conveys nervousness, alertness, human solidarity, and circumspection. Foreshadowing the struggle on Teheran’s streets Women! Life! Freedom! today, the drawing attains an urgency and contemporaneity that is rare.
Maryam Motallebzadeh showed this and similar drawings in Tehran in the late 1990’s in her own independent gallery, a gallery and meeting place for female artists. The drawing hasn’t been exhibited since.
Maryam Motallebzadeh, born in Tabriz (Iran), is a visual artist active in painting, drawings, installation, and performance art. Her work is exhibited internationally in museum and gallery exhibitions since 1974. The artist lives and works in Berlin.
Maryam Motallebradeh’s Unterdrückt [supressed] is accompanied by works of Walid Raad, Ali Kaaf, Taysir Batniji, Chaza Charafeddine, Joseph Sassoon Semah, Željka Mićanović Miljković, Ekin Su Koç, Emin Turan, Elisabeth Masé, Patricia Lambertus, Chris Newman, Raziye Kubat, Maliheh Afnan, Katharina Karrenberg, Elza Javakhishvili, Alexander Polzin, a.o.
MKM Gallery is an art cabinet, a performative installation, a private museum, Denkraum, and exchange market. A project of House of Taswir.
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