Shirin Fakhim "The Tell-Tale Tart"

Leila Heller Gallery

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In this series of new life-size sculptural work, Fakhim depicts the streetwalkers of Tehran, often driven to their trade by poverty or abusive domestic situations. Exposing the hypocrisy of the sex industry with both a serious and humorous sensitivity, the new assemblages are created of readymade traditional terra cotta pots of various shapes and scales that are used as the body. The pots are then “dressed” with fabrics, wigs, jazzy high heel boots and different accessories bought from the public markets, second hand shops, and the bazaar. Some of the life-sized sculptures are even dressed in the artist’s own clothes. While colorful on the outside, one work, "Untitled 8 (from the Tell-Tale Tart)", 2010, has been painted entirely black inside and it appears that the woman is trying to pull herself out of the pot – and her own misery.
[Image: Shirin Fakhim 2010 "Untitled 1 (from the Tell-Tale Tart)"]

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from February 25, 2011 to March 29, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-02-25 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Shirin Fakhim

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