Maryam Monalisa Gharavi – The New Inquiry

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

is an artist, poet, and theorist. Her work in film, video, performance, text, photography, drawing, and sound explores the interplay between aesthetic and political valences in the public domain. In 2016 she published a translation of Waly Salomão’s Algaravias: Echo Chamber (Ugly Duckling Presse), the poetry volume The Distancing Effect (BlazeVOX), and the artist publication Apparent Horizon 2 (Bonington Gallery). Previous exhibitions, publications, lectures, and residencies include Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Art Dubai, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Film Archive, Triple Canopy, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Women and Performance, The White Review, The New Museum, Transition, Asymptote, The Literary Review, Valand Academy, Darat al Funun, Delfina Foundation, among others. She completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Film & Visual Studies at Harvard University, where she currently teaches as Lecturer on History & Literature. She is author of South/South and a contributing editor at The New Inquiry. In 2017 she will be an artist-in-residence at Wysing Arts Centre.

South/South

Funny Face

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 10, 2017

Sad tricks with ladders and shoes, tricks with salt...

South/South

Afraid is a Country

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJanuary 30, 2017

South/South

Bad Subjects

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJune 16, 2016

One, astrology; two, dreams

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If You’re Feeling Directional

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJanuary 21, 2016

Upward and onward

South/South

—“but was it a peaceful protest?”

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviNovember 18, 2015

Mapping capoeira as an instrument of liberation

South/South

Postcard from the Internet

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviNovember 3, 2015

Fragments of a shadowy century

South/South

Compose Yourself

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviOctober 31, 2015

#SS2 realizes the dream of every artist to become a sovereign without exerting force

South/South

F/W 2015-2016 Lookbook

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviOctober 31, 2015

Forecasting 1796 into your 2016 look

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Room Boys

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviSeptember 30, 2015

Living That Life in Dubai

South/South

“Shadow Run”

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviSeptember 9, 2015

"It's Bagram—Not Boston"

South/South

Propositions for Twenty Unmade Works of Art

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMarch 12, 2015

Make a work based on the hazards of your job Be specific and unsparing

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Shadow Games

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviFebruary 28, 2015

"It's a kind of military climatology springing virtually out of nothing"

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Wall, Ground, Air

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviFebruary 28, 2015

Colonized everything

South/South

The Labor of Performance (Part Two)

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviFebruary 2, 2015

Taboo disclosures: she divulges her monthly salary

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Little Earthquakes

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJanuary 23, 2015

Nature un-naturalized

South/South

The Labor of Performance (Part One)

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviDecember 25, 2014

By gazing intently at the utter mundaneness of a person at work, the film denaturalizes their labor.