In Conversation: Ebecho Muslimova and Rosario Güiraldes

In this dialogue between Ebecho Muslimova and Assistant Curator Rosario Güiraldes, the pair discuss Muslimova's installation Scenes in the Sublevel, on view in our lower gallery through May 23, 2021. Muslimova discusses her cartoon alter ego Fatebe, and how she uses the character humorously and as an important emotional tool to deal with her own fears and desires.

Ebecho Muslimova: Scenes in the Sublevel presents ten large scale drawing panels which feature Muslimova's alter ego Fatebe - an exuberant and confident protagonist who finds herself in situations both comedic and compromising. For Muslimova, Fatebe’s unabashed occupation of physical space and overt confidence in her body and its many functions is a kind of language for her self-expression and personal agency.

Recorded on April 14, 2021.

Ebecho Muslimova

Muslimova received her BFA at Cooper Union in New York, NY, in 2010. Muslimova will be included in the Belgrade Biennale 2021 and has previously presented solo exhibitions at Magenta Plains, New York, NY; Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zürich; White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO; and Room East, New York, NY. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Swiss Institute, New York, NY; The Hirshhorn, Washington DC; Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; Kunsthalle St. Gallen; Tanya Leighton, Berlin; and Delmes & Zander, Cologne; among others. Muslimova created a large-scale mural for the 32nd Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2017. Her work has been featured in publications such as Forbes, The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Mousse, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Cura Magazine, and in Jeffrey Deitch’s book Unrealism. The artist currently lives and works in New York, NY.