mariam shambayati

NEW SITE

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shambayati.opr.net

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life is a mess

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FIRST OF POSTITOLOGY SERIES

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getting shipped off to Utah

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MORBOSOS

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"LIVE OUTSIDE THE BOX", 2011

21,5 cm x 28,5 cm

digital photograph print on fujifilm paper

black and red Staedtler permanent marker on 3M post-it paper

MDF double-sided frame, lacquered white + extra-clear 3mm glass

and we're back on track...

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CQQB

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TEA TIME TABLE

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TEA TIME, 2010
100 x 100 cm

lacquered MDF, glass, rubber wheels, used and varnished tea bags

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ADIEU VOYEUSE

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After 11 years, La Voyeuse has finally found a new home:

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FARCE

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and if I stopped this farce called Art?

and just dedicated my life to living.

instead of pretending

the pretentious pretendings of a preposterous person?

Cimaise, 1953

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Chaque toile est une aventure.

Elle court à chaque instant le risque merveilleux de devenir autre,

jusqu'à ce que le point final y soit mis.

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aji = sabor

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GOOD LUCK - BAD LUCK?=)(/&%$·""¿

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just before...

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what life is all about

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time really does INTENSIFY

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must go back to making sketches of potential paintings

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Hiroshima, mon amour

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More than 140,000 people were killed when an atomic bomb hit Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Photograph: A Peace Memorial Museum Handout/EPA

Why Hollywood ignores Hiroshima

15 August 2010 12:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Ronald Bergan ponders why American films are so reluctant to depict the Hiroshima bombing.
American cinema is omnivorous. It has swallowed almost every subject from the trivial to great historical events, and then spewed them up. However, there is one subject it has refused to tackle directly: the bombing of Hiroshima and its consequences.
As it is now 65 years since the horrific event, the omission seems even more astounding. Is there is an element of collective guilt because the Us is the only country ever to have used a nuclear weapon on a civilian population? It cannot be because the subject is too appalling to depict, since many other horrendous happenings have been portrayed graphically in American films.
The only references that American cinema, commercial or otherwise, has made to Hiroshima have been oblique. During the cold war, MGM produced Above and Beyond (1952), based on the experiences of Colonel Paul Tibbets, »
- Ronald Bergan

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somedays, I just feel like...

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art that makes you feel.

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richard serra at guggenheim bilbao

feeling blurry

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WELCOME, SUDOKU

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Who's in the Box?, 2010
60 x 50 cm
mixed media on wood

private collection L.P., Barcelona

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KEIHAN & HOMAYOUN, 2010
80 x 100 cm
acrylic on canvas

private collection N.N. - Amameh, Iran

First painting of my sons.

THE STATE OF THE IRANIAN NATION

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That Was Then, This Is Now, 2010
80 x 80 cm
acrylic on canvas

The second of two paintings of my father and I dancing together. 10 years have passed since I painted the first one, entitled Baba Joon .

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NAAN 2, 2010
60 x 60 cm
acrylic on canvas

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remember that albertina wants this drawing

Iranian Design Excellence Award

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NAAN 1, 2010
60 x 60 cm
acrylic on canvas

private collection M.F. - Kerman, IRan

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AMAMEH STUDIO

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TEHRAN STUDIO

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OFF WE GO

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ARTIST-O-?

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WORLD CUP

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JAAMEH-JAM or WORLD CUP, 2010
102 x 76 cm
acrylic on canvas

Funnily enough, I finished this painting (based on an image from the pre-selection phase for the 1954 Football World Cup) just as the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is underway. I could hear the cries of joy and desperation of football fans from the bar under my studio window as I was putting the finishing touches on. Nice.

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kakesho-bekkan! = get it over with!

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KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT NEXT TIME

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Teaches me not to go rambling off about ideas, projects, future endeavors.

Just send people an invitation to the openning, that's much more effective.

SICILIA

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MAN-MUSE

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Conjunctivitis is Contagious, 2010
acrylic on canvas
can't say what the dimensions are right now

painting of a man-muse of which never led anywhere...
but sometimes the process, the intention , the idea is just as interesting, if not more so, than the final outcome.

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"il faut mériter parler de soi"

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Virginie Vétil Comellas

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The Cocks (Los Gallos)

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Just today we were reminiscing about this painting and how fitting it is that it's owned by a gynocologist in L.A.
If I were him, I would definitely have it up in my examination room.

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DID SOMEONE SAY PAINTING?

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let's just say painting's on the back burner of life for the time being.

bread

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thinking of becoming a baker

HOMAYOUN ON GENDER

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"i really am glad to be a boy and not a girl, because I don´t have to sit down to pee"

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wow, it's been a month since my last post!

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welcome to the year 1389

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Sorkhi-ye to az man, zardi-ye man az to

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the phrase iranians chant to the fire on the last tuesday night of the year.
means "your redness to me, my yellowness to you".
we like to play with fire.

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it takes us all sooner or later

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I´M IN PIECES

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