Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh
Ghada Amer (b. 1963, Cairo, Egypt) and Reza Farkhondeh (b. 1963, Iran) have cultivated an artistic collaboration spanning over 20 years. Both artists have established individual reputations before merging their styles into a dynamic visual partnership.
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh's Art Style
Since 2001, Amer and Farkhondeh have expanded their practices by collaborating, creating mixed-media works on paper that blend eroticism and wit. Despite working together, they often remain in their separate studios, passing works back-and-forth and adding their unique touches. This collaboration resists control, resulting in compositions layered with diverse imagery and cultural references.
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh's collaborative art style seamlessly merges their distinct approaches into a cohesive and dynamic visual language. Amer's bold explorations of female sexuality and Farkhondeh's investigations into the forms and beauty of nature come together in their mixed-media works. Their technique involves building compositions from a series of scrim-like layers that both reveal and conceal various images.
Their artworks feature a blend of sexually explicit depictions of women, patterns of flowers, birds, and insects, cartoon characters, Hindu deities, and passages of Arabic script. This combination creates a cultural clash between East and West, purity and prurience, decorum and abandon. The interplay of these elements results in works that are visually complex and rich in meaning, reflecting their collaborative approach and shared artistic vision.
