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Shamiran Istifan
Trip to Jerusalem, 2022
Video, sound, subtitles
3 minutes 7 seconds
Courtesy the artist and Moarain House, London
Photo: Theo Christelis -
Shamiran Istifan
Eternal Return of the Same Girls, 2022
Giclée print, cotton rag paper, chrome frame
30 x 100 cm
Courtesy the artist and Moarain House, London
Photo: Theo Christelis -
Shamiran Istifan
Chiasm of Lovemaking / Gouriye, 2022
Acrylic
77.5 x 120 cm
Courtesy the artist and Moarain House, London
Photo: Theo Christelis
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Shamiran Istifan
Wedding Dove, 2022
Giclée print, cotton rag paper, chrome frame
20 x 30 x 2 cm
Courtesy the artist and Moarain House, London
Photo: Theo Christelis -
Shamiran Istifan
Maryam II, 2022
Metallic jersey, wadding, lining, thread
109 x 88 x 4.5 cm
Courtesy the artist and Moarain House, London
Photo: Theo Christelis -
Shamiran Istifan
Chiasm in the Flood Narrative, 2022
Acrylic
20 x 20 x 1 cm
Courtesy the artist and Moarain House, London
Photo: Theo Christelis
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Shamiran Istifan
Maryam I, 2022
Metallic jersey, wadding, lining, thread
107 x 97 x 5.5 cm
Courtesy the artist and Moarain House, London
Photo: Theo Christelis -
Shamiran Istifan
Become Haifa, 2022
Acrylic
35 x 60 cm
Courtesy the artist and Moarain House, London
Photo: Theo Christelis -
Shamiran Istifan
Maryam III, 2022
Metallic jersey, wadding, lining, thread
109 x 95 x 4 cm
Courtesy the artist and Moarain House, London
Photo: Theo Christelis
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Shamiran Istifan (b.1987, Baden, Switzerland) lives and works in Zurich. Her desire to tell stories originated in the experience of growing up in the so-called two-worlds-system which formed for her generation. Istifan's art practice focuses on layered social dynamics, motivated by her personal experience of the way class, gender and religion shape collectivism, politics and pers...
Precious Pipeline is dedicated to global systems of meaning: a response to sacredness, ‘the interconnectedness of things’, radical margins, rhizomatic communities, Instagram mutuals, and the preciousness of womanhood. Ribboned tightly like a corset, these preordained codes of conduct are worn with a painful sensitivity: the exhibition is dedicated to those who wear their heart on their sleeve. In her first UK solo exhibition, Shamiran Istifan addresses the complexity of relations across politics, culture, philosophy, gender and geography. She boldly visualises a series of responses to the intricacies of world-building, drawing on relational aesthetics intimate to her own lived experiences. The...