Tala Madani
Squeegee Men (feather flight)
Lot closes
21:09:38
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June 7, 03:30:30 AM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 160,000 USD
Current Bid
60,000 USD
1 Bid
Reserve met
Lot Details
Description
Tala Madani
b. 1981
Squeegee Men (feather flight)
Executed in 2024.
Oil on linen
72 1/8 x 72 1/8 in. (183.2 x 183.2 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery
Combining slapstick humor with visceral cultural critique, Tala Madani (b. 1981, Tehran, Iran; lives in Los Angeles, CA) creates paintings and animations whose indelible images prompt reflections on gender and who and what gets represented in art. In Squeegee Men (feather flight), the dirty windows are representative of “the plane between us and the spiritual beyond.” Cleaning the windows points to our attempts at mark-making, even if that means the erasure of something greater and more mysterious. Madani was featured in The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020 (2024–25) at the MCA and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and Secession, Vienna. She has participated in major biennials including the 16th Istanbul Biennial (2019), Whitney Biennial (2017), and Made in L.A. 2014.