Shirana Shahbazi

[Composition-40-2011], 2011, chromogenic color print, 210 x 168 cm

From the Series MIR [Ania-07-2005], c-print on aluminium, 150 x 120 cm
[Composition-22-2011], 2011, chromogenic color print, 210 x 168 cm
From the Series Landscapes [KingsCanyon-02-2008], c-print on aluminium

From the Series Flowers, Fruits & Portraits
[Schmetterling-34-2009], c-print on aluminium, 120 x 150 cm

[Diver-02-2011], gelatin silver print, 90 x 70 cm

[Komposition-47-2012], c-print on aluminium, 210 x 168 cm
[Komposition-11-2011], c-print on aluminium, 150 x 120 cm

[Mercedes-02-2008], 2008, gelatin silver print, dimensions variable
[Composition-20-2011], 2011, chromogenic color print, 90 x 70 cm

From the Series Flowers, Fruits & Portraits
[Frucht-2007], c-print on aluminium, dimensions variable

Shell-05-2009, gelatin silver print on aluminium, 150 x 120 cm

From the Series Flowers, Fruits & Portraits [Mineral-05-2007], c-print on aluminium, 90 x 70 cm
From the Series Flowers, Fruits & Portraits [Tulpe-01-2009], gelatin silver print on aluminium, 90 x 70 cm

From the Series Flowers, Fruits & Portraits
[Stilleben-26-2008], c-print on aluminium, 120 x 150 cm

all images courtesy the artist and Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich

SHIRANA SHAHBAZI – who has been included in the 2012 edition of New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York – was born in Tehran in 1974, moved to Germany as a child and is currently based in Zurich. Trained as a photographer, SHAHBAZI combines genres as varied as the vanitas still-life, portraiture, landscape and colour abstraction which are then often used as source material for paintings, billboards or traditional Iranian carpets.

More recently, she has experimented with the scale of the photographs, creating in-situ installations with multiple images hung on wallpaper. By altering the scale of her photographs or translating them into different mediums, she examines and expands the fields of tension between realism and abstraction, narrative and abstracting visual language, and finally how we look and how we use what we see.

The Museum of Modern Art presents the 27th annual New Photography exhibition, from October 3, 2012 through February 4, 2013, in The Robert and Joyce Menschel Gallery. This year, the exhibition features the work of New York-based MICHELE ABELES, Shanghai-based collaborative BIRDHEAD, New York-based ANNE COLLIER, Los Angeles-based ZOE CROSHER, and Zurich-based, Iranian-born SHIRANA SHAHBAZI.



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