Deborah Schamoni

They have company
Bodies between matter and logic, emancipated figures yet structurally bound subjects Housing a feeling
Architectural incandescence
The glow of belief detailing the surfaces
Light enters through apertures
So there is an outside
And there are additional eyes

In movement
Fluids enter and depart, sustenance and shit, blood and wine Things begin to abstract with touch
The glow of abstraction

They have company
And the room is tight Desire is a slit and an arrow


Through painting, drawing and installation, Maryam Hoseini creates liminal spaces that explore the construction of gender, and the violence of power. Probing the contours of subjectivity, fragmented architectural environments host scenes of collective drama where anatomised figures sequence in a midst of orgiastic acts of rebellion. Nude, opaque bodies perform liberally from one act to another, sliding through fissures in perception and identity. Diagrammatic interiors allude to a structural backdrop, where unrestrained desire rubs up against the authority of set institutional parameters. Hoseini depicts bodies as being intrinsically bound in architectures of power but not without agency, rather their expressions of desire flourish in the ruins of political failure.

Text: High Art, Paris / Arles
Photos: High Art, Paris / Arles
Courtesy of the artist and High Art, Paris / Arles