With “Scatter My Ashes on Overseas Lands,” Amir H. Fallah’s largest solo museum exhibition is at the moment on show at MOCA Tucson. Exploring identification and the immigrant expertise, his vibrant portraits of veiled topics, botanical work inspecting classical Dutch work, and a brand new sequence of autobiographical items are included within the exhibition. Fallah was final featured on our website here.
“Portraits of veiled topics capitalize on ambiguity to skillfully weave truth and fiction, whereas questioning tips on how to create a portrait with out representing the physicality of the sitter,” the museum says. “Whereas the tales that encompass his topics are deeply private and are informed by means of the intimate possessions they maintain most pricey, his work addresses generational immigrant experiences of motion, trauma, and celebration. Fallah wryly incorporates Western artwork historic references into work formally rooted within the pattern-based visible language of Islamic Artwork. In doing so, his work possess a hybridity that displays his personal background as an Iranian-American immigrant straddling cultures.”
The exhibition runs by means of Might 3. Discover extra on Fallah’s site and the museum’s page.
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