Cosmic Dance
This talk is in conjunction with Mobina Nouri’s Solo exhibition, Cosmic Dance (October 24 – Dec 14, 2024).
ADVOCARTSY is proud to present Cosmic Dance, Mobina Nouri’s second solo exhibition at our gallery. The departure point for this show is Nouri’s previous series A Thousand Tales. Continuing her characteristic hand-drawn, densely-detailed acrylic and oil based ink on canvas, this series takes on a much more universal scale while still alluding to Persian lore and mystical wisdom. Each piece features multiple iterations of the feminine form, and Nouri surrounds those forms with natural and cosmic elements that create deep visual and ideological context and suggest a grand yet intentionally enigmatic narrative.
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About Shana Nys Dambrot
Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in DTLA. Formerly LA Weekly Arts Editor, she is the writer and co-founder of 13ThingsLA, and a contributor to Flaunt, Village Voice, Alta Journal, WhiteHot, Artillery, and other publications. She is the recipient of the Rabkin Prize, the Mozaik Prize, and the LA Press Club Critic of the Year award. Her novella Zen Psychosis was published in 2020.
About Mobina Nouri
Born in Isfahan, Iran, Mobina Nouri is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice embodies her lived experiences as a female immigrant in the UK and later the US. The artist received her BA in Performing Arts from Faculty of Fine Arts, Tehran University, and MA in Product Design from Tehran University of Art, Iran. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Creativity Science from City University of London, UK. In her hypnotic use of line and form, Nouri mines her country’s tradition of storytelling, often turning to Persian literature, philosophy, and mysticism to contemplate the complexities she bears witness to in the contemporary world.
Nouri received the 2019 Juror’s Choice Award at the San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, the 2020 MOZAIK Future Art Award, the 2020 Juror’s Choice in the “Art Saves Humanity” Competition, curated by a panel of renowned art world advocates and entrepreneurs, including Jerry Saltz. In 2021, Nouri was a selected juror for MOZAIK Future Art’s “Re-Imagining Democracy” exhibition and was selected to be an artist in residence at Djerassi for their 2022 program in the Bay area. Nouri is currently based in Los Angeles.
ADVOCARTSY is a contemporary art platform specializing in Iranian contemporary art.
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