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An Interview with Tala Madani - by Ross Simonini
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‘The Artist is Irrelevant’: on Transgression, Nostalgia and Style
An Interview with Tala Madani ‘The Artist is Irrelevant’: on Transgression, Nostalgia and Style Ross Simonini May 15, 2025 1 Share ‘I’m mostly interested in art that excavates from the psyche – not the frontal lobe, not the intellectual, not the speakable, but the unspeakable’ Tala Madani’s paintings depict a universe of splendid transgressions. A brood of babies feasts on a mother made of crap. A toddler wields a penis the size of a go-kart. A man is levitated by the power of his own glowing ejaculate. It’s a funny, horrifying and often hypermasculine place, animated by the mythic logic of th
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