LOT 24 - Mahsa Alikhani

Independent

Title: Untitled

Dimensions: 19" x 27" (before frame)

Medium: Photography

Date: 2016

Mahsa Alikhani was born in Tehran in 1981. She completed her formal studies in architecture and photography at Azad University in Tehran, Iran. For the past 10 years, her photography and installations have focused on social and cultural issues in Iran. Her work is a combination of imaginative and real structures and forms. Mahsa often integrates a degree of irony into her work, engaging elements from contemporary life, culture and art history. She presented solo and group exhibitions in Tehran and various other cities in Europe and North America. Working as an artist in Iran, She had to resort to metaphor and allegory as strategies for evading scrutiny and censorship, creating a subtle language of subtext and allusion to address urgent social and political questions in her practice. Working with models from the community, she created staged photographic compositions that captured the existential condition and ramifications of being a woman in a rigidly controlled, patriarchal society. Being born and living in a country constantly facing social unrest, economic stifling and global isolation, seclusion and exclusion have always been persistent thematic concerns in her art projects.