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Mina Talaee is a visual artist and sculptor based in Tehran, Iran. She is a PhD candidate in Art Research at Alzahra University. She has taught at a number of universities from 2009 to 2014, namely Soore University at which she was head of the BA/ MA programs for Handicrafts, Islamic Arts, Arts of Book and Persian Painting. She has since focused solely on her artistic career and research. Beginning under her mother’s supervision, Amineh Kazemzadeh, since young age, she has continued her experience and education under the guidance of Master Parviz Tanavoli in Iran. Her works which mainly concentrate on cultural and social conventions and challenges, were included in 24 exhibitions in galleries like; Nicolas Flamel, Paris; Main Gallery, Irving Art Center, Texas; Imam Ali Museum; Saba Art Gallery; Niavaran cultural center; Mahe Mehr; Shirin Art Gallery; Khak Art Gallery; etc. since 2003. She is a member of Institute for Promotion of Visual Arts. She has also won several national and international awards, namely the first place award from the 9th International Festival of Student Puppet Theater, Designing and making puppets and awarded from the Youth Art: Forth Visual Art Festival.
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I see my artworks as statements made on the human condition in both its collective and geographically, culturally specific senses. The sculptures I design and create, reflect the contemporary condition as I perceive and comprehend it through my lived experiences, mainly focusing on cultural and social issues such as gender equality and cultural hegemony in my artworks. In other words, it is my way of connecting to the outside world and sharing my view and understanding of it with other people. Following my work under Master Parviz Tanavoli’s supervision since 2012, my artworks undergone a notable shift from abstracted and formalistic wooden forms of human body with an existential approach, to a series of cast-metal works exploring the role of culture in constructing human beings. I later created a body of interactive sculptures drawing on games and toys to explore social and cultural issues such as power and control. In my most recent artworks, hair works collection, I have taken natural human hair as the material which indicates various stages of individuals’ lives, and signifies their cultural obligations and restrictions.
