Fatima Moallim

Last Tango and guest curator Fabian Flückiger present the first solo exhibition of Swedish artist Fatima Moallim in Switzerland. Maollim’s large-scale drawings, her preferred medium, function as visual diaries in which sensations, memories, dreams and fears unfold with raw power by the vigor of a continuing line of graphite, pencil, or marker. Moallim is a self-taught artist living and working in Stockholm and Malmö. In a reduced formal expression, we encounter existential stick figures, buildings, paths and abstract shapes. Sounds, words, emotions and noises of the artist’s everyday life grow into a visual vocabulary. They exude psychological tension and speak of social expectations, drawing attention to the deafening noise of urban life and its psychosomatic effects. A repository of feeling and of the artist’s experiences, they relate to religious conflicts, civil rights movements closely tied to Moallim’s origins in the Horn of Africa.

Produced during her residencies in New York, Greece and in her studios in Sweden, this new series of drawings is being exhibited for the first time. Fatima Moallim at Kunstverein Last Tango is made possible with the support of IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts.

Fatima Moallim (*1992, Moscow) has produced site-specific works at Moderna Museet Stockholm, Göteborgs Konsthall, Marabouparken, Zinkensdamm metro station in Stockholm and on the glass façade of Bonniers Konsthall. She is represented in the collections of the British Museum, Moderna Museet, Sweden, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Ståhl Collection and Statens konstråd’s Collection. In 2022 she was an IASPIS Studio Grant Holder at the ISCP in New York. In 2024 she will open a solo exhibition at Konstakademien (The Swedish Art Academy) in Stockholm.

Fabian Flückiger (*1987, Bern) works as a freelance curator in Bern and Brussels. Between 2015 and 2020 he was curator at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. He has realised exhibitions and publications on Nora Turato (2019), Steven Parrino (2020), Miriam Laura Leonardi (2021), ektor garcia (2022) and Manon de Boer (2022). He is the curator of a couple of group exhibitions dealing with the potentials and restrictions of language and the today’s institutional requirements and the ways in which life issues and bodies of a diverse society are represented in museum collections, respectively. These include “A Tongue Becomes Yours” (2022) and “This Is Us” (2023).

Last Tango is directed by Linda Jensen and Arianna Gellini.

Last Tango is a member of VSIZK-AISAC and Schweizer Kunstverein.

Gallery hours Fri 3 – 6 pm, Sat 12 – 6 pm, and by appointment (Tue-Fri)

Exhibition Duration 24.11.2023 – 27.01.2024

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Location:
Last Tango
Sihlquai 274
8005 Zürich
Switzerland