Tala Madani
Good Times, 2025
Oil on linen
121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm
48 x 36 x 1 1/2 in
48 x 36 x 1 1/2 in
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Good Times is set in Tala Madani's imagined nightclub, usually a space of ecstatic reverie and humour, but here conveying an eeriness and uncanny quality. A group of figures form...
Good Times is set in Tala Madani's imagined nightclub, usually a space of ecstatic reverie and humour, but here conveying an eeriness and uncanny quality. A group of figures form a shadowy mass with largely indistinguishable features, some bearing a disco ball in the place of their head, another with a disco ball for a torso. Suspended above them is a man whose entire form has been supplanted with a disco ball. Some of the figures below cast their gaze upwards in confusion at this strange light fixture, whilst one of the revellers crawls through the shiny reflection on the nightclub floor. In this way, these mysterious disco dancers reveal the underbelly of human relationships.