Artist: Mahsa Soroudi
Exhibition: Inner Fragments
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Gallery: Michigan State University
Website: https://www.mahsasoroudi.com/
Instagram: @mahsasoroudi
Mahsa Soroudi is an Iranian artist who has a BFA in Visual Communication from Azard Art and Architecture University in Tehran 2006. Her interest include interdisciplinary topics that evolve into thought provoking and meaningful exhibitions. She is also passionate with helping familiarizing other artist with the community.
From “Inner Fragments,” Mahsa helped and had three of her works posted up. From each of them, there would be a background and a girl in the middle of the piece. From the expression of each girl, we can see that they are not smiling and all looking away from where they are facing. There is a lot of highlighting with the colors dealing with each person to help show each’s emotion and direction. From each, I find that the background is a type of wall/ground such as tarp, metal sheet and wooden wall. On top of that there are blots of paint and then the girl at the top layer. The background tends to be dark in color with brown, black and purple.
What “Inner Fragments” wants to show is that lives of Iranian women is more than the typical cliches. Mahsa wants to highlight the new wave of contemporary Iranian art as an alternative mode of understanding modern Iran. She also wants to show that there is a universal theme that women experience in their lives which is more than being mothers, wives and daughters. She wants to focus on their inspirations, intimate moments, frustrations and confusion.
In this exhibit, I did find it hard to connect to the art since I wasn’t able to speak to Mahsa in person but I did like how a lot of art wanted to show the modern Iran. I too was one of those who thought that everyone in this area wore hijabs but I was wrong. I think its great that the women in that area are their individual people and that they all don’t follow the stereotype.
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