Mamali Shafahi
A recurrent thread running through Mamali's projects since his first performances in France in the early 2000s has been a focus on transgression and testing limits, involving a reversal of roles between artist and others - participants, the public, and most recently his parents - to see how far the latter will go in their new role as protagonist. Artists have special powers: to take part in an art project, people can be persuaded to step far outside their usual perimeters, abandoning constraints, questioning taboos, challenging their preconceptions… The roles of artist and model, producer and consumer, subject and object, dominator and subordinate... are thus perverted. The participant or viewer takes an active role and the artist loses absolute control over the finished experience: artists and participants are changed or even transformed - in some cases, for life. This process of interaction, the blurring of boundaries between the artist and others, the shifting locus of power, the potentially perverse possibilities it opens up, underpin all of Mamali's practice, whatever the issue he is investigating: taboo and breaking taboos, narcissism and voyeurism, intergenerational exchange, domestic perversity, addiction and self-destruction, the impact of new technologies and 'post-body' immortality…
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Daddy Sperm, 2019
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Daddy Sperm, 2019
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Daddy Sperm, 2019
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Daddy Sperm, 2019
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Sacred Hill, 2019
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Sacred Hill, 2019
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I'm not an artist, I'm just a heart of coal, 2018
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V [!] R o l o g y, 2017
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V [!] R o l o g y, 2017
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V [!] R o l o g y, 2017
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Maybe/Public Love, 2016
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The Underworld and its Emergent Effects, 2016
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Immortal, 2015
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Broken SD, 2014
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Daddy Sperm, 2013
Mamali Shafahi (B.1982, lives in Amsterdam and Paris) is a film-maker and video installation artist. His practice, varying from installation to sculpture and film, includes a deep fascination with the impact of emerging technologies on life and art. His early work in France, at the Paris-Cergy school of fine arts, focused on performance. He then produced a number of video installations, and his investigation of relationships between past, present, future and emerging technologies led to the V[i]Rology installation at the Mohsen Gallery, in 2017. From 2014 to 2017 he worked on an experimental docu-fiction film, Nature Morte, involving his parents as both actors and digital characters, screened at Art Rotterdam, in Taiwan and London. In 2019 he made an installation combining his father's drawings with his own installation, sculptures and the film for City Princes/ses at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. His VR projects, with Ali Eslami, have featured at Het nieuwe instituut, Rotterdam, the Vancouver Biennale, IDFA film festival in Amsterdam and CPH DOX, Copenhagen.
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Dastan's Basement
Art Dubai 2021 29 Mar - 3 Apr 2021 Art FairsDastan’s Basement is pleased to announce its participation at this year’s Art Dubai with a presentation of works by Yousha Bashir , Farrokh Mahdavi , Iman Raad , Mamali Shafahi...Read more -
FIAC | Online Viewing Rooms
Fiac 2021 4 - 7 Mar 2021 Art FairsDastan is pleased to announce its participation in Fiac OVR , 4-7 March 2021, with works by Reza Aramesh , Bita Fayyazi, Ghasemi Brothers , Amir Kamand , Ardeshir Mohassess...Read more -
SOUTH SOUTH VEZA | Online Viewing Room
South South Veza 2021 24 Feb - 7 Mar 2021Dastan is pleased to announce its participation at SOUTH SOUTH VEZA with a presentation of works by Reza Aramesh, Andisheh Avini, Maryam Eivazi, Bita Fayyazi, Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Sahand Hesamiyan, Hoda...Read more
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Art Dubai 2021: These are some of the most eye-catching works at this year's fair
The National March 31, 2021The Arts & Culture section of UAE's The National has recently published an article on 'some of the most eye-catching works' at this year's Art...Read more -
Dubai Connections: Eight Highlights at Art Dubai
Ocula March 31, 2021Ocula has recently published an article, recommending eight highlights at Art Dubai 2021, including Iman Raad at Dastan's Basement booth. Click here to read it...Read more -
Is Art Dubai the Future of Art Fairs?
Hypebeast March 29, 2021Hypebeast has recently published an article on this year's Art Dubai Art Fair. Click here to read it in full.Read more
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Club Sandwich #4 | Le chocolat
Glassbox July 4, 2020Glassbox welcomes the launch of the 4th issue of Club Sandwich , 176 pages devoted to chocolate. On this occasion, Club Sandwich takes over the...Read more -
Prince.sse.s of the cities: the Tokyo Palace at the fast pace of Dhaka, Manila, Tehran, Lagos and Mexico City
Toute La Culture June 21, 2019Toute La Culture has recently published a review of City Prince/sses at Palais de Tokyo, including Hoda Kashiha and Farrokh Mahdavi's paintings (in French). Click...Read more -
Magazine PALAIS #29
Palais de Tokyo June 20, 2019Palais de Tokyo has recently published issue #29 of its magazine, devoting this issue to the exhibition City Prince/sses presented from 21 June to 8...Read more