Maryam Jafri, Home Office ft. Angola, Iraq, Vietnam, Vicodin, 2021, Courtesy the Artist and Matteo Cantarella, Copenhagen
Maryam Jafri, The Everyday Model, 2021, Courtesy the Artist and Matteo Cantarella, Copenhagen
Maryam Jafri, NUT JOB (from the series Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society), 2025, Courtesy the Artist and Matteo Cantarella, Copenhagen
Matteo Cantarella is delighted to participate to Liste Art Fair 2026 with a solo presentation by artist Maryam Jafri.
For over twenty years Maryam Jafri has worked across diverse media including video, installation, and photography, with a specific interest in questioning the cultural and visual representations of history and political economy and their impact on our quotidian experience.
At Liste Art Fair 2026, the gallery will present an updated survey of works, including the video installation "Home Office ft. Angola, Iraq, Vietnam, Vicodin" (2021), photo-text collages from the series "The Everyday Model" (2021) alongside works from Jafri's most recent body of work "Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society" (2025).
Maryam Jafri lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark and New York, USA. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (US), Blaffer Museum of Art, Houston (US), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (CH), Betonsalon, Paris (FR), Gasworks, London (UK), Kunsthal Aarhus (DK), Museet for Samtidskunst Roskilde (DK), Malmö Konstmuseum (SE), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (AUS), Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver (CA) and elsewhere.
Recent biennials include Front International (Cleveland Triennial), Sao Paolo Biennial, Venice Biennial (Belgian Pavilion), Manifesta 9, Shanghai, Taipei, Bucharest, Thessaloniki, and Quebec City Biennial, among others.
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