The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Tala Madani: Biscuits

Institution
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
Grant Cycle
Fall 2019
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support
Website
www.moca.org/exhibition/tala-madani ↗
Installation view of Tala Madani: Biscuits, September 10, 2022–February 19, 2023 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Photo by Jeff McLane.
Tala Madani, Abstract Pussy, 2013, oil on linen, 98 x 80 in. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, promised gift of George Freeman.
Installation view of Tala Madani: Biscuits, September 10, 2022–February 19, 2023 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Photo by Jeff McLane.
Tala Madani, The Shadow, 2018, oil on linen, 80 x 80 in. (203.2 x 203.2 cm). Private collection, Indonesia. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen.
Installation view of Tala Madani: Biscuits, September 10, 2022–February 19, 2023 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Photo by Jeff McLane.
Tala Madani, Shit Mother I, 2019, oil on linen, 80 x 80 in. (203.2 x 203.2 cm). Collection of Wendi Murdoch, New York. Courtesy David Kordansky Gallery. Photo by Jeff McLane
Installation view of Tala Madani: Biscuits, September 10, 2022–February 19, 2023 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Photo by Jeff McLane.
Tala Madani, Chandelier, 201, oil on linen, 20 x 17 in. Beverly Hills, CA. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen.
Installation view of Tala Madani: Biscuits, September 10, 2022–February 19, 2023 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Photo by Jeff McLane.
Tala Madani, A Banana Is Speaking, 2017, oil on linen 20 1/8 x 17 1/8 in. (51.1 x 43.5 cm). Private collection, Germany. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen.
Installation view of Tala Madani: Biscuits, September 10, 2022–February 19, 2023 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Photo by Jeff McLane.
Installation view of Tala Madani: Biscuits, September 10, 2022–February 19, 2023 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Photo by Jeff McLane.
Installation view of Tala Madani: Biscuits, September 10, 2022–February 19, 2023 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Photo by Jeff McLane.
Tala Madani, Bouquet, 2006, oil on canvas, 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm). Collection of Tala Madani. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen.

 The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles presents Tala Madani: Biscuits the first North American survey of Iranian-born artist’s paintings and animations. Bringing together fifteen years of the artist’s incisive work, the exhibition will highlight the often-absurd socio-cultural dynamics enacted within Madani’s art and, more broadly, the potent and combustible relationship between art history and global history. Madani’s paintings and animations are powerful meditations on the potential for art to reflect the deeply-seated cultural fears, conflicts, and desires of our present day. Rich in narrative and heavy in irony, they elicit curiosity, fantasy, and repulsion.

Tala Madani: Biscuits is organized by Rebecca Lowery, Associate Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Ali Subotnick, Guest Curator through the MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellowship, with Paula Kroll, Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

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