Artist: Mahsa Soroudi
Exhibition: Iranian Women Art
Media: Visual Communication
Gallery: 7,500 Miles
Website: mahsasoroudi.com
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The person or I should say Artist that I interviewed for this essay was Mahsa Soroudi who was just one of the artists who contributed to the 7500-miles gallery as the gallery was a group exhibition with other artists from her culture who did not want to present politics, but rather the history of the woman from where they are from. Mahsa Soroudi is from Tehran and earned her degree from the University of Azad Art and Architecture as well while she was living there until she moved to Malaysia. Soroudi graduate with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts in Visual Communication in 2006 who was focusing on interdisciplinary topics that can evolve into thought-provoking and meaningful exhibitions. She is also passionate about taking steps towards familiarizing the community with contemporary artists who have gone disregarded or unseen due to the unfair exposures about their communities. She also says that she has moved to different parts of the world to experience all their art and their culture that they have to offer plus she moves to other countries to influence her own culture to different types of people.
The piece of art that is shown in the 75,000-Miles art gallery by Mahsa is a woman who is colored in pink with different colors surrounding the lady as it might be displaying a woman who is out of place due to the environment she is living in. First, let’s start off with the girl or woman that is being displayed for us she is colored all in pink and she seems to be wearing a dress with a shirt slash sweater on she is also bear foot, but what really comes out is how curious or scared she looks she sees something that makes her feel and act in a scared or curious way. The second colors that are around her are green and white these colors are scatted around her but the white color seems to be around her more while the green color seems to be around the white color but it is not displayed as much as the white color. Even though they are all around the girl or woman they do not show a clear picture of anything you can not pick out anything to make something out of it as it is unclear of what it is trying to display. After the two colors, the background of the art is full of different colors which are purple, green, and white these colors are shown with different lines and shapes throughout the entire art piece.
Soroudi exhibition is about the history of woman from where she is from and other women have placed their art in this exhibition to show what women went through and what they had to deal with living in the city of Tehran. She also did not want her exhibition to be about politicians or politics she strictly said it in her interview she just wanted this exhibition to be about her people and especially the woman. With that in mind she strictly just wanted women depicting what an average girl slash woman would go through in Tehran especially different parts of the city since it is different everywhere you go. She explains how living in different parts of the region will give you a different experience of the culture as her’s was very different since she lived in the south than another girl who lived in the north. She also states that the religious revolution took a big role in most of these girls’ lives which influenced them on how they thought about the city and where they lived.
What this piece of art means to me is a sign that a woman always needs to be on the lookout they can not be comfortable in their own home that is why the girl in the picture seemed so scared and curious. The other aspect that drives me toward this road is the background of the painting as it is a bunch of scattered lines and colors which might resemble the people judging or making the woman scared leading to once again being scared. That is what I truly think it represents as she describes that a lot of people do not know the history of a woman nor know the feelings of a woman who is living in Tehran especially during the revolutions. I can kind of relate to what she is saying since I am a colored person who lives in the U.S but it is not the same as I live in southern California where it is really diverse. If I was to go to other parts of the country then yea I would feel the same way about how people are viewing me and how how they are judging me as well.
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