Maryam Hoseini
Through painting, drawing and installation, Maryam Hoseini creates liminal spaces that explore the construction of gender, and the violence of power. Probing the contours of subjectivity, fragmented architectural environments host scenes of collective drama where anatomised figures sequence in a midst of orgiastic acts of rebellion. Nude, opaque bodies perform liberally from one act to another, sliding through fissures in perception and identity. Diagrammatic interiors allude to a structural backdrop, where unrestrained desire rubs up against the authority of set institutional parameters. Hoseini depicts bodies as being intrinsically bound in architectures of power but not without agency, rather their expressions of desire flourish in the ruins of political failure.
Maryam Hoseini, Golden Pour (Hidden Lies), 2022
Acrylic, ink, and pencil on wood panel, 198.1 x 106.7 cm
Maryam Hoseini, Golden Pour (Hidden Lies) (detail), 2022
Maryam Hoseini, Golden Pour (Hidden Lies) (detail), 2022
Maryam Hoseini, Golden Pour (Hidden Lies) (detail), 2022
Maryam Hoseini, Flesh and Sun, 2022
Acrylic, ink, and pencil on wood panel, 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Maryam Hoseini, Flesh and Sun (detail), 2022
Maryam Hoseini, Flesh and Sun (detail), 2022
Maryam Hoseini, Temporary Twilight, 2022
Acrylic, ink, and pencil on wood panel, 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Maryam Hoseini, Temporary Twilight (detail), 2022
Maryam Hoseini, Temporary Twilight (detail), 2022
Maryam Hoseini, Memory House, 2022
Acrylic, ink, and pencil on wood panel, 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Maryam Hoseini, Memory House (detail), 2022
Maryam Hoseini, Memory House (detail), 2022
Maryam Hoseini, Livingroom, 2022
Acrylic, ink, and pencil on wood panel, 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Maryam Hoseini, Livingroom (detail), 2022
Maryam Hoseini, Livingroom (detail), 2022
Maryam Hoseini, Blind Dreamer, 2022
Acrylic, ink, and pencil on wood panel, 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Maryam Hoseini, Blind Dreamer (detail), 2022
Maryam Hoseini, Blind Dreamer (detail), 2022
Natasha Arselan reports from London’s most influential contemporary art fair.
Generations of artists present visions of the unconscious and the uncanny at this year's fair, from the iconoclastic paintings of Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington to new works by Prabhakar Pachpute and Maryam Hoseini.