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Born in Tehran, Iran, Mitra Tabrizian lives and works in London. She won this year’s Royal Academy Rose Award for Photography (previous winners include Gillian Wearing and Cindy Sherman). Recent exhibitions include Fondazione Fotografia Modena (Three True Stories, 2013), the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver (Safar / Voyage, 2013), the Victoria and Albert Museum (Light from the Middle East, 2012), Tate Modern (Street and Studio: An Urban History of Photography, 2008) and solo exhibitions at The Wapping Project Bankside, Tate Britain, Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Folkwang Museum, Essen. Recent publications include Another Country (Hatje Cantz, 2012) with a foreword by Homi Bhabha. Her works are held in major public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Arts Council of England; ICA Boston, Queensland Art Gallery; Australia, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum Folkwang, Essen and Musée d'Art Moderne, Luxembourg.
Exposition Exhibition: Jason Engelund & Ardeshir Tabrizi at Kopeikin Gallery Exposition « Leceistershire » from Mitra Tabrizian at The Wapping project Bankside Exposition Exposition de Mitra Tabrizian a : At the Wapping Project Bankside à Londres Exposition Mitra Tabrizian expose pour la première fois à New York Modifier l'image
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Jason Engelund "Meta-Landscapes and Visual Ambient Drones"
Kopeikin Gallery is pleased to present Meta-Landscapes and Visual Ambient Drones by Jason Engelund. This exhibition marks Engelund’s first solo presentation with Kopeikin Gallery.
Jason Engelund’s artworks encompass both the psychological and physical landscapes, together making the meta-landscape. Through these images he explores visual perception and its role in how we make meaning of memory and experience. These artworks draw from his early studies in painting bringing both his reconstructive techniques and material based approach to making composition. Engelund’s artwork was described in the photography publication 3200k as a “performative, and gestural abstraction of photography...
The Wapping Project Bankside is delighted to announce the first UK exhibition of Mitra Tabrizian’s new series Leicestershire (2012). Tabrizian has won this year’s Royal Academy Rose Award for Photography and this will be her second exhibition at The Wapping Project Bankside since joining the gallery last year.
Tabrizian’s new series was shot in Leicestershire – a major centre of the hosiery and textile industries, which has witnessed the dramatic decline of its manufactures towards the end of the 20th century. Originally commissioned by Loughborough University, the first two photographs were installed as 3 x 7m billboards in preeminent locations of Leicester and Loughborough. Once the commission was complete, Tabrizian decided to continue working on the project. The series now counts 13 lar...
This Autumn, The Wapping Project Bankside is delighted to exhibit British-Iranian photographer and film-maker Mitra Tabrizian’s previously unseen series Another Country (2010). Born in Tehran, Tabrizian has recently had solo exhibition at Tate Britain (2008) and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2006). Forthcoming exhibitions include Light from the Middle East at the Victoria and Albert Museum (November 2012) and her new book (Another Country) was published by Hatje Cantz in March 2012.Tabrizian’s work explores a range of issues including post-colonial theory, corporate culture in the West and the recent cultural and political shifts in Iranian society.
Blurring the boundary between fact and fiction and combining documentary techniques with those of film, Tabrizian produces meticulously choreographed photogra...
The first solo show in New York City of photography by Mitra Tabrizian will be on view at Leila Heller Gallery in Chelsea at 568 West 25th Street from June 7 – July 7, 2012. The exhibition will feature seven monumental photographs taken in Iran and England. The artist had a solo show at Tate Britain in 2008, and has been commissioned to do a portrait for the London Olympics this year. A fully illustrated brochure with an essay by Vali Mahlouji, a London-based independent curator and writer, will accompany the exhibition.
Tabrizian creates fabricated mise-en-scenes. Bankers in an office building, women walking through Tehran’s surrounding mountains, a man standing on the sidewalk—nothing seems out of the ordinary—yet Tabrizian stages these evocative scenes as if we are walking in on t...