Friday 19th - Saturday 27th April
Opening night: Friday 19th April 6pm
Leily Mojdehi will be giving a short talk about her work between 6.30-7pm. Come along and find out more her work and the recent Tate Collective commission.
Leily Mojdehi presents, ‘Stinging Nettles’, her debut UK solo presentation. Mojdehi’s practice intertwines mediums such as painting, textiles and sculpture. Weaving inspiration from millennia of ancient traditions, an all-knowing algorithm and personal narratives, she creates mixed-media works that act like a woven diary.
Pulling from familial archives, Mojdehi adopts and layers different visual languages over each other. Such sentimentally charged traditions include: Persian miniatures, Qajar portraits, craft, humour, and all that is kitsch. She uses inherited materials and techniques, to form an alternative archive. There is an act of care and urgency in her intimate exploration of self; a sense of belonging, being of mixed heritage. Mojdehi’s thrifty process and use of overlapping deconstructive languages, prompt conversations over the hierarchy of aesthetics, private and public space, and gender politics.
‘Stinging Nettles’, is a collection of mixed-media, collaged works that belong to Mojdehi’s scrappy archive of gentle confusion. Look closer, and works which appear coherent and cohesive, can be unlaced as material: traditions held together with hanging threads.
instagram: @mojjyart
website: www.leily-mojdehi.com
Opening times:
Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am-3pm
Tate Collective monthly artist commission series.
Come along and see this recent Tate Collective commission by Leily Mojdehi.
Watch Leily’s @mojjyart creative process in creating their textile piece inspired by Farah Al Qasimi’s Um Al Naar 2019 in Tate’s Collection! It explores the mischievous and humorous joys of girlhood.
This piece was created as part of Tate Collective monthly artist commission series.