Familjealbum

by Fatima Moallim

Artist Fatima Moallim (Ryssland, född 1992)

Alternate Title

Family Album

Date2021

MediumInk on linoleum

DimensionsYttermått: 201 × 163,5 × 0,2 cm

ClassificationDrawings

Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)

Countries

Sweden, Russia

On view

Stockholm

RoomGallery 01:5

Object NumberMOM/2021/383

CollectionsSvenska förvärv 2021

About the artwork“An abstraction of my family situation.” This is how Fatima Moallim describes the sensitive drawing that unfolds its links and nerve threads across a mottled-grey linoleum carpet. It could also represent a substitute for the family album that never was. The black figure in the middle is the artist herself as a child, but could just as well be someone else. The child is ensnared in lines and bodies that tug in different directions – a web of relationships, feelings and tangles. For Moallim, drawing became a way of processing a childhood with no natural sense of context. The lino refers to public housing. This hard-wearing imitation of stone forms the background for Moallim’s fragile lines, which resemble rock carvings or hieroglyphs.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signatur ej åtkomligt Selected exhibition history Den underjordiska himlen. Surrealism i Moderna Museets samling Moderna Museet, Stockholm Nyförvärvsutställningen (den 5 februari 2022 - den 14 augusti 2022) Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Works by the artist