Ebecho Muslimova, āFatebe Phantom Cageā, 2020, Enamel and oil paint on Dibond aluminium
243,8 x 365,8 cm
Counting among
@ebecho Muslimovaās largest panels, āFatebe Phantom Cageā presents two of the artistās bold and uninhibited cartoon alter egos: one sitting on the bottom of a staircase framed by a train of colorful balloons, watching her second self releasing pink and green fledglings from her large smiling mouth. The artist once said that āFatebe is a solution to a problem. The circumstances she finds herself in are the quandaries that she has to face. Thereās a word in Russian that means victim, prey, and sacrifice all at once, and that is the role into which she is cast and that she always manages to slip out of. This performance, this slippage through.ā
In his review of Muslimovasās first institutional show
@drawingcenter , where āFatabe Phantom Cageā was on loan, Anthony Hawley
@artiswaydifferent described Fatabe as a āmuch-needed deflation of the paternalism, individualism, and self-assuredness of patriarchy.ā (From āEbecho Muslimovaās Alter Ego Devours the Patriarchy,ā
@friezeofficial 21 April 2021).
Ebecho Muslimova (b.1984, Dagestan, Russia) lives and works in New York. She received her BFA at Cooper Union in New York, NY in 2010. Her latest museum exhibition āFatabe Shadowsā just opened
@kunsthall_stavanger in Norway and runs through 11 January 2026.
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