Sunday, September 8, 2024, 18:00 (CET) at the temporary mohit.art Project Space, Goebenstraße 10, 10873 Berlin, and online at www.mohit.art.
Friday, September 13, 2024, at 18:00 (CET) at the mohit.art Project Space and via online livestream. Participating artists include Mahsa Mohammadi, Pooneh Oshidari, and Nasim Goli (joining us from Tehran), as well as Azar Pajuhandé (present in Berlin). The discussion will be moderated by Hannah Jacobi and Bernd Fechner from mohit.art.
September 9 through 15, 2024, daily 10:00-18:00 (CET), and September 16 through 22 by appointment at the mohit.art Project Space.
Online from September 9 through October 13, 2024.
“Art Affects: The Artist’s Body” considers the body as both a tool of creation and a subject of art. Historically, the female body has been represented through the male gaze. This exhibition reclaims the gaze and presents the female artist’s body from her perspective, emphasizing self-representation, self-empowerment, and the emotional as well as social, political, and economic contexts that influence artistic creation.
The four featured artists face unique challenges that impact their work and visibility in both Tehran and Berlin. Social conventions, political restrictions and unrest, economic barriers, and othering often limit their freedom of expression and access to resources. Despite these challenges, they continue to create powerful art that speaks to their experiences and aspirations.
Exploration and representation as empowerment is a central theme of the exhibition, with each of the four artists asserting their own unique narrative of the female body and identity. Confronting the male gaze and challenging traditional modes of representation, expressing anger and dissent, exploring pain, connecting with the non-human in nature, and moving the body into abstraction, they share their artistic experiences, thoughts, and emotions. Their work places the woman and the artist at the center, redefining how they and their (self-)representations are viewed and appreciated.
Nasim Goli (b. 1985), a self-taught artist who lives and works in Tehran, combines photography and installation, using materials such as dough, bread, glass, textiles, and ready-mades to explore the affective connection between the body and objects. Her photographs, which we show in Berlin and online, evoke deep sensory and emotional responses.
Mahsa Mohammadi (b. 1991) is a visual artist and writer based in Tehran. Focused primarily on abstraction, she prioritizes the creation process over the final output. Viewing her colorful, thin-layered abstract works as self-portraits, she explores themes such as gender, memory, and ontology with a cheerful, confessional tone. This exhibition showcases her latest works on textile, paper, and cardboard, alongside drawing notebooks and an autobiographical short story, depicting the female body in a dynamic trajectory.
Pooneh Oshidari (b. 1984) divides her time between Tehran and Dubai, working primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Her new self-portraits, which we show in Berlin, express vulnerability, pain, and protest. Another important theme is the connection between motherhood and nature, a concept rooted in ancient Persian mythology, which she relates to contemporary environmental destruction.
Azar Pajuhandé (b. 1982) lives and works in Berlin. She critiques political, social, and sexual norms in her multi-part installations that combine drawing, textile work, and sculpture. From the perspective of her identity as an artist, she reflects on and challenges orientalist and sexist representations in art. She does this with particular relish in her cextensive series of small drawings on fabric, Bathers, which we are showing in Berlin and online.
The detailed list of artworks featured in the mohit.art project space and online exhibition will be available on September 5, 2024. This is an exceptional opportunity to acquire such captivating pieces for a compelling price. For more information on the individual works and their prices prior to the release, please contact us at buy@mohit.art.
Header image: Azar Pajuhandé, 500 Bathers series, 2021. Photo: Private, studio visit to Azar Pajuhandé, July 2024.
