Mitra Tabrizian
Title: The Long Wait
From the series Border
Year: 2005/6
Media: Archival print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta Satin paper, ed 5 plus 2 APS
Size: 42 x 29.7 cm
About the work:
Winner of the Royal Academy’s Rose Award for Photography (2013) In the collection of Smithsonian Museum, USA
Border focuses on Iranians in ‘exile’ and their ‘untold’ stories, using the codes of documentary, yet deviating from the usual generic approach. Combing fact and fiction, and reminiscent of films stills, the work portrays fragments of the stories of individuals in exile.
Bio: Mitra Tabrizian is an Iranian/British artist and filmmaker. Her photographic work has been exhibited and published widely and is represented in major international museums and public collections. Solo museum shows include Tate Britain (2008). She has exhibited at the Venice Biennale (2015); recipient of the Royal Academy’s Rose Award for Photography (2013) – and the Royal Photographic Society ‘Honorary Fellowship’ (2021).
Her critically acclaimed debut feature Gholam (British/Iranian film, 2018) had a successful theatrical release in Uk. The film is now available on BFI player, Amazon prime - and released on Vod worldwide. She is currently developing her second feature The Far Mountains with BFI.
Title: City, London, 2008
Media: Archival print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta Satin paper, ed 5 plus 2 APS
Size: 29.7 x 42 cm
About the work:
In the collection of ‘National Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia
Shot at the headquarters of JP Morgan and using actual bankers, the work alludes to the 2007–2008 global financial crisis (GFC); the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression!
“City, London is almost a tableau vivant, a gathering of lonely souls, real bankers on the stage of their life. Like actors who forgot their lines…shelled in their postures… Silence reigns over the image, a silence of explanations unknown, or impossible to share.” Fabio Severo