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Maryam Taghavi

MARYAM TAGHAVI

Chicago Works: Maryam Taghavi مریم تقوی Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 20 December 2023–14 July 2024 Chicago
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For the next iteration of its Chicago Works series, the MCA presents the first solo museum exhibition of artist Maryam Taghavi (b. Tehran, Iran; based in Chicago, IL).

Taghavi’s practice insists on positionality: where one stands determines what—and how—one sees. For the past several years, her work with talismans, calligraphy, and the Islamic occult has coalesced into a series of sculptures and paintings that strive to signify the unseen. In her upcoming MCA exhibition, Taghavi creates new works that expand her interest in perception by interrogating the space between the illusive vanishing point of the horizon and the immutability of distance.

Taghavi’s exhibition will take over the MCA’s Turner Gallery on the fourth floor, culminating in an immersive installation that invites audiences to close one eye and peer with the other, to adjust their gaze to new spatial possibilities, and to imagine a relationship with what is imperceptible.

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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is one of the world’s largest museums dedicated to contemporary art. Here, the public can experience the work and ideas of living artists and understand the historical, social, and cultural context of the art of our time.

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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago contemporary art institution in Chicago United States
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States
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Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm
Tuesday, 10am – 9pm
Closed Monday
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