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Farah Ossouli: Last Four Decades
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Necmi Sonmez Sussan Babaie

Farah Ossouli

Last Four Decades

Necmi Sonmez,  Sussan Babaie,  Ladan Akbarnia

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English
Skira
10 December 2023
Oriental art
This book provides insights on Farah Ossouli's artistic pursuits with miniature painting, explains the historical background of Iranian Contemporary and the challenges of contemporary image making in the new political and social climate.

Farah Ossouli (born in 1953 in Zandschan, lives and works in Tehran) has explored innovative approaches to the medium painting, most commonly through juxtaposition of images and texts that scrutinize preconceptions about gender and race while undermining collective assumptions in post-revolutionary Iran.

A hallmark of her paintings are exceptionally fine miniatures; her subjects are figurative but nevertheless not easily deciphered. Even through titles can identify what is portrayed, they often only hint at a possible interpretation of the picture. Through most of her works have a private character, Ossouli refers to historical events and occurrences with collective memory internationally, which still disturbs to this day. Ossouli can interpret history through an artwork, since the aesthetics of representation creates a challenge to the ethics of what is represented. The aesthetic quality of the paintings is what first allows the viewers to address his content. The dissolution of subjectivity and its rearticulation in miniature compositions is a major trope. Early on Ossouli began to use mirrors to facilitate this process - as myth and metaphor doubling and redoubling a fragmented vision - returning the viewer to that moment of ego formation described by Jacques Lacan as the mirror stage. Farah Ossouli's paintings, gouaches, conceptual miniature works, drawings, artist books and texts since the mid-1970s have been characterized by a keen awareness how the conditio humana is a product of its representation in mass media. She has developed a unique aesthetic practice committed to a metaphorical and feminist narration.

For more than four decades, Ossouli has been delving into the violent peripheries of a society mediated by images, in genuine compositions whose fine surfaces contain an unsettling visual poetics, political allure, and hope. Her works are monumental sites of confrontation with ideologies that manipulate and often obliterate the individual. This corporal trauma is expressed in an almost documentary realism with the elements of classical Persian Miniature Paintings that presents little more than the bare facts, it is also reflected in every aspects of composition, from the projection of contemporary political issues and the removal of entire sections in the narration, to unnerving collapse of the figure with space it occupies.
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Text by:   ,
Imprint:   Skira
Country of Publication:   Italy
Dimensions:   Height: 300mm,  Width: 270mm, 
Weight:   1.350kg
ISBN:   9788857245577
ISBN 10:   8857245578
Pages:   144
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sussan Babaie, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Ladan Akbarnia, Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, San Diego Museum of Art. Behrang Samadzadegan, artist & curator, Tehran.

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