Renowned Iranian artist Shadi Yousefian exhibiting now in Querétaro

In a stunning caller solo amusement astatine the Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Iranian creator Shadi Yousefian combines photography and different media successful fascinating explorations of the themes of memory, individuality and migration. This expansive exhibition, entitled “Memory successful Layers,” includes implicit 100 works of creation and is connected show present done June 8. It showcases selected pieces spanning 23 years of Yousefian’s career.

Yousefian’s enactment beautifully reflects the dislocation successful her life

Museo de Arte de Querétaro manager Antonio Arelle Barquet describes Yousefian’s work: She evocatively reflects “on taste identity, loss, and the arduous process of adaptation… we are delighted to contiguous the enactment of this exceptional artist.”

Born successful Tehran, Iran, successful 1978, Yousefian immigrated to the United States astatine the property of 16. Her work, arsenic highlighted successful the 8 bid represented successful “Memory successful Layers,” illuminates challenging aspects of modern beingness and cosmopolitan themes specified arsenic dislocation, loss, alienation and reinvention, with a peculiar absorption connected taste identity, socio-political repression, and the migrant experience.

These themes intelligibly resonated with guests astatine the March 7 “Memory successful Layers” accumulation opening, wherever galore of the attendees appeared awed by Yousefian’s work.

“Today we’re truthful utilized to viewing countless faces photographed flawlessly — and cautiously filtered — that seeing the artist’s bid of violently, asymmetrically altered self-portraits for maine provided a almighty reminder that quality doesn’t prevarication successful perfection,” said M. Vega, a depository guest. “Shadi’s enactment is affluent successful technique, creativity, and emotion — knowing that these artworks are made from tiny fragments of existent photos, letters and diary entries from the artist’s ain beingness is precise moving.”

“A circuit de force,” agreed different attendee. “Daring, evocative, and simply stunning.”

Yousefian’s “Fading “Memories” series, 1 of 8 bid presently connected show astatine the Museo de Arte de Querétaro, witnesses the transition of clip and the inevitable fragmentation and fading of memories.

Antonio Arelle Barquet, the museum’s director, besides agrees. “With mastery and a resolute spirit, Yousefian… has achieved a assemblage of enactment that is intimate and profoundly personal. Now she transforms these expressions into cosmopolitan declarations of the experiences and memories of quality migrations crossed our planet.”

Connecting her idiosyncratic acquisition of migration to the universal

As Yousefian explained, “Much of my enactment to day reflects my tendency to seizure and distill immoderate essence of my beingness arsenic an migrant and link it to a much cosmopolitan experience. My creation suggests and builds upon a benignant of fragmentation and dissolution but besides celebrates the endeavor to reinvent and reconstruct a aforesaid successful a caller societal and taste context.”

In addition, she noted that she sometimes feels incapable to adequately explicit herself done connection and truthful uses her creation arsenic a conveyance to convey meaning. She sees this arsenic an analogy “to the inability of radical to explicit their existent individuality owed to restrictions and motivation codes imposed connected them by governments oregon society.”

Self Portrait 25 by Shadi Yousefian

Yousefian has exhibited her enactment passim the United States and internationally successful Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom and Austria. Her works person been acquired for the imperishable collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts (LACMA) and the San Diego Museum of Art.

Finding an abundance of inspiration successful Mexico

Yousefian embraced the accidental to grounds her enactment astatine the Museo de Arte de Querétaro due to the fact that of her emotion for Mexico. “I respect this state truthful overmuch for its culture, from its affluent and vibrant pre-Hispanic traditions to its progressive and forward-thinking modern creation country — and of people for its benignant and welcoming people.”

“As an artist, Mexico inspires maine successful truthful galore ways, 1 of which is the daring cognition towards color. Another facet which much straight inspires me,” she continued, “is the modern creation and architecture. I’m highly impressed by the assortment of modern architectural styles, particularly the residential apartments and homes successful Mexico City, Guadalajara and Merida.” 

Yousefian’s “Diaries” series, seen astatine left, utilize—and transform—her memories and stories from the 2 years earlier she emigrated from Iran to the United States. Her “Obscured by Colors” series, astatine right, is simply a collaboration with Argentinian creator Lucas Rise, created successful San Miguel de Allende.

“And of course, the assortment and fig of museums and galleries consistently offering fantastic exhibitions by renowned Mexican and planetary artists, arsenic good arsenic avant-garde works and creation installations by lesser-known modern artists, helps maine enactment connected and up-to-date with the creation world.”

“Mexico not lone inspires maine arsenic an creator but helps maine turn and person a much optimistic presumption connected beingness arsenic a quality being. Family is highly valued, adjacent by the younger generation. In Mexico 1 tin inactive witnesser a teen walking hand-in-hand with her grandmother. I besides admit the supportive cognition of artists here. Instead of the hostile rivalry communal successful galore different places, artists successful Mexico are often inspired by each different and bask seeing their peers turn and beryllium successful.”

“Memory successful Layers” volition beryllium connected show astatine the Museo de Arte de Querétaro done June 8. To larn much astir Yousefian’s work, visit www.shadiyousefian.com.

Based successful San Miguel de Allende, Ann Marie Jackson is simply a writer and NGO person who antecedently worked for the U.S. Department of State. Her award-winning caller “The Broken Hummingbird,” which is acceptable successful San Miguel de Allende, came retired successful October 2023. Ann Marie tin beryllium reached done her website, annmariejacksonauthor.com.