Biscuits Vanessa Winship Recurring concrete shapes and perplexed

Recurring concrete shapes and perplexed human beings punctuate the journey with a faintly elegiac tone which conjures up an inverted Arcadia

purchased from the photography archives of several American newspapers which have been discarding their analogue print collections and moving to the now ubiquitous

Sharp details testify to the abandonment and demise of half-familiar scenes even as they transfigure them into stage-like arenas for ideation

in which the familiar experience of growing up is laid bare in all its antagonism

Biscuits Vanessa Winship Recurring concrete shapes and perplexedTala Madani: Biscuits accompanies the first North American survey of the Iranian born artists paintings and animations. Organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), the exhibition brings together fifteen years of the artists incisive work, highlighting the often absurd socio cultural dynamics enacted within Madanis art and, more broadly, the potent and combustible relationship between art history and global history. The publication