Lot 127: SHIRIN ALIABADI (IRANIAN, B. 1973) Miss Hybrid III signed, titled, numbered

SHIRIN ALIABADI (IRANIAN, B. 1973) Miss Hybrid III signed, titled, numbered and dated ‘Miss Hybrid III 2007 Shirin Aliabadi 4/5’ (on a label afixed to the reverse) inkjet print 35 x 27 1/2 in. (89 x 70cm.) Executed in 2007, this work is number four from an edition of fve

EXHIBITED: Paris, Gallery Thaddeus Ropac, Miss Hybrid, 2011 (another from the edition exhibited). Toronto, Aga Khan Museum, Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet; Contemporary Persians Group Exhibition, 2017 (another from the edition exhibited).

LITERATURE: A. Downey, Inverted Modernities and Contested Traditions: Contemporary Iranian Visual Culture and (In)Authenticity, in RES, no. 4, September 2009 (the larger edition size illustrated in colour, p. 159). S. Eigner, Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran, London 2010 (the larger edition size illustrated in colour, p. 303). Exhibitions Now, in Canvas, Vol. 13, Issue i, January - February 2017 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 27).

PROVENANCE: Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009