Tala Madani
Wrong House, 2014
Single-channel colour animation
3' 30"
Edition of 5 plus 2 AP
'In Tala Madani’s stop-motion animation Wrong House (2014), a chubby, nude, bald man paces a lonely apartment. Soon, the mailman arrives, only to be hoisted aloft, strangled, and unceremoniously tossed...
'In Tala Madani’s stop-motion animation Wrong House (2014), a chubby, nude, bald man paces a lonely apartment. Soon, the mailman arrives, only to be hoisted aloft, strangled, and unceremoniously tossed aside, lifeless. A series of subsequent visitors, including the milkman and a pair of fresh-faced proselytizers, all meet the same fate. As each man’s neck is wrung, blood spurts out, seeping across the floor and covering the naked antihero’s body. Finally, he exits and the animation ends, leaving more questions than answers. Despite the horrific wantonness, one cannot help but titter at the video’s deadpan, cartoony screenplay and buffoonish pilgarlic. The morbid humor is characteristic of Madani’s paintings and animations, which flesh out the sordid tendencies lurking beneath the veneer of human respectability.'
– Annabel Osberg, 'Shit Moms and Cake Men: Tala Madani at the Museum of Contemporary Art', Art in America, 8 November 2022
– Annabel Osberg, 'Shit Moms and Cake Men: Tala Madani at the Museum of Contemporary Art', Art in America, 8 November 2022