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 Nyförvärvsutställningen (den 5 februari 2022 - den 14 augusti 2022) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Den underjordiska himlen. Surrealism i Moderna Museets samling Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Works by the artist