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Maslen and Mehra
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No.6 (from the series Common Ground
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Maslen & Mehra continue their experimental approach to the use of photography in the series Common Ground. Figures from different historical periods and cultures are juxtaposed in compositions which have been painstakingly created with hand-made mirrored sculptures, medium format photography and drawing. The mirrored sculptures are set up in a series of landscapes and photographed with a medium format film camera. The hand drawn pencil borders are then layered onto the compositions. The finished works are large-scale fabric wall hangings reminiscent of tapestries which were status symbols amongst the aristocracy in the Middle Ages.
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Working in a diverse, imaginative and experimental graphic language, Maslen & Mehras' collaborative practice engages in dialogues which compare, contrast and juxtapose the natural and human world in which we live.
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‘Lying behind both the Native images, and the images of the Mirrored series that are their antonym, lies a longing for an Edenic world that perhaps never truly existed in fact. I think it is part of the fascination of these works that they both preach a certain kind of morality, a morality of respect for nature, and at the same time question it. You can inhabit these scenes, but only as a ghost. The problems they pose are ultimately insoluble – there are no slick solutions to be found here.’
EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH Quote from Mirrored – Maslen & Mehra monograph published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS 2008
Mirrored – Maslen & Mehra, monograph published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Editor Caprice Horn 184 pages, hardback, full colour
Lettre International magazine, special edition, The Way We Live Now Pg 74 & Pg 246
Saatchi online, Critics Choice by Alix Rule, Published Feb 16
This Week in New York, Shadow Lands, Published Feb 6
The Guardian Guide UK, preview Maslen & Mehra/MK Contemporary Robert Clark, Jan 12
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