MARYAM MOGHADAM | THE BODY

Maryam Moghadam, Born in 1984, Tehran, Is an internationally known artist and a Lecturer at the Azad Islamic University since 2013. She owns an M.A degree in Art, and in the past 15 years, Moghadam exhibited her Art in respectable galleries and international art fairs around the globe, including at the Milad Tower international exhibition, Feb 2018, Seven Sight, Mah-e-Mehr Gallery, July 2018, Florance Biennale 2007 Italy, YICCA – Italy 2017, Art fair Ankara-turkey 2017, Art Fair Oxford – England 2018, Abstraction 7 Art Gallery – Istanbul 2018 Turkey and many more.
Maryam Moghaddam is a researcher and author of “The Mirror of Imagination, A New Reading on Coffee House Painting,” published by Idea Publishing in 2020.

The Body

“Body” Is a reflection of the human world, a human who sometimes is degraded by the turbulence of his time. The difficulties draw him to the banal, but with a constant effort, he leads himself to the door to hope. In these works, attempts have been made to bring the suffering and bitterness of life to a greater extent with deformations into the language of the image; ultimately, the man’s endeavor to survive is accompanied by the association of corrupted form of the body, which is attached to the image.

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“Bodies in Maryam Moghadam’s paintings have fallen into despair and even look humiliated, yet at the same time looking into her drawings, they still look powerful and magnificent. Humans that are glorious out of despair”.

Arash Soltanali, Iranian Art Critic

For Maryam Moghadam, the body is a metaphor for existence, represented as a war scenario in which the primary impulse for survival emerges as innocent violence or as a painful surrender of a wounded beast that retreats into its lair to heal itself. The canvases of the young Iranian artist can make one uncomfortable. It is difficult to look at one of them without perceiving her almost animalistic figurative instinct that also in the abstraction remains gripped by life, the fragility of the body, and its incredible resilience. The consummation of the figure, which becomes partial and monstrous, affected by disintegration, gives us access to a different and feral beauty, a direct expression of the abyss in which life and death originate in a relationship of absolute complementarity, such as two inseparable and unthinkable elements on their own.

Andrea Guerre, Iranian Art Critic

WEBSITE: maryammoghaddam.com
INSTAGRAM: @moghaddam_artgallery

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