All in Pink

Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East
© Malekeh Nayiny, photo courtesy of the artist
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All in Pink

Edition: 3/12

2007
Photographs
Dye coupler print
Image: 47 1/4 × 35 1/2 in. (120.02 × 90.17 cm) Sheet: 51 1/4 × 39 3/8 in. (130.18 × 100.01 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by Nina Ansary (M.2017.13.2)
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

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Here, Rustam combatting the White Div, the same vignette as in Malekeh Nayiny’s A Ruin from the Past (see M.2017.13.1), is re-created and repeated like wallpaper behind the horned demon. The humorous playfulness of both these Nayiny prints only partially conceals an implied darkness—the conquering of one’s own demons—and raises the question, whose face is hidden behind the grotesque pink mask? Perhaps it’s our own.
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Bibliography

  • Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2018.