Mina Mohseni
Mina Mohseni studied Graphic Design at high school. She pursued her studies in Painting at Soure University, Shiraz, from which she received her Bachelor’s degree, and afterward, she earned her Master’s degree in Painting from the Isfahan University of Art in 2011. She is the co-founder of Daraprints collective since 2009.
Her practice spans Drawing, installation, video, animation, and printed matter, all of which are approached with a socio-political and mythical engaged and researchled working methodology. The concepts of her artistic practice embody the question of the opposition of potential and vulnerability of humankind as opposed to its surrounding. they are mainly informed by myths and historical narratives, nature, morality, resistance, the Sisyphean state of the world. Mina has held six solo exhibitions and her works have been included in more than 20 group exhibitions in Iran, Kuwait, England, Turkey, Austria, and Lithuania. At present, she is working in her studio in downtown Tehran, preparing the new project for her upcoming solo exhibition.
Weapon_like
2022
Weapon_Like is the title of a project I have been working on for some time. I started the first phase of the project in January 2022 in Örö island, Finland. I am exhibiting some prints as a part of Öres summer exhibition and the next exhibition will be in Tehran this autumn. Weapon_Like asks questions about the relationship between the body and the earth, geography, and its historical memory. the project aims to shed light on human fantasies of dominating nature and the depiction of living conditions under oppression while praising acts of defiance and striving to resist, which is represented in a way that is similar to a guide or manual. The choice of the printing medium was made to make the works reproducible and in line with the concept of manual.
One of my sources of inspiration for this project was the illustration of hiking Guide boards on Örö island paths.
Location: Rowhouse
