OVERVIEW
Mirak Jamal
Liste Year
Year of Birth
Country of Birth
Presented by
2020
1979
France
Sultana
Some of the habitats we have constructed around us, 2017
ink pencil, oil stick, spray paint, oils colored pencil, transfer image
90 x 60 cm
Item 1 of 4
In 1979, the Iranian revolution broke out. Many citizens were under the obligation to flee the country. Mirak Jamal was one of them. Then followed a long wandering across Eastern, then Western Europe. A wandering that lead him even further: the United States and Canada, where the expectations of a fair and protective democracy soon collapsed. He frequents waiting rooms, highways, buildings in which apartments «pile up» and urge the child and the artist to venture their gaze on non-visible things that, step by step, forged the patterns of a creative matrix. He draws frantically the things of his child ...
Carrier becomes carriage, 2017
mixed (photo transfer, oil, oil stick, ink, pencil, ballpoint pen, spray lacquer)
60x90 cm
Item 1 of 4
Escape, 2017
mixed (photo transfer, oil, oil stick, ink, pencil, ballpoint pen, spray lacquer)
60x90 cm
Item 1 of 4
Great pillars of a civilization and what grows between, 2019
Oil on canvas
80x100 cm
Item 1 of 2
Perspective, 2019
Oil on canvas
80x100 cm
Item 1 of 2
Looking up at Gropiusstadt, 2019
print transfer and oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm
Item 1 of 3
