Ghada Amer
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
Born Cairo, 1963 (Amer) and Iran (Farkhondeh)
Amer and Farkhondeh gained their MFA from Villa Arson in Nice, France where they met.Though the artists have been collaborating artistically for almost 20 years, their first joint show was held at the Kukje Gallery in 2007 and travelled then to Tina Kim Gallery in Spring 2008. They participated to numerous residencies: Tyler Print Institute in Singapore, Pace Prints and The Neiman Center for Print Studies in New York.
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh use recurring motifs and themes in an organic collaborative process. Amer’s work uses tapestry to portray a feminised and abstracted mass of lines that on closer inspection become erotic female figures, in contrast to Farkhondeh’s more graphic technique portrays nature. In The Bugs and the Lovers’ Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh explore the gulf between idealised art historical representations of the female nude and women as human beings, with sexualities of their own. ‘The Bugs and the Lovers’ shows a naked woman and her lover on a background of roses and insects.