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  • Jul 03, 2023

Inside Burger Collection 50: Ebecho Muslimova

Installation view of EBECHO MUSLIMOVA’s Fatebe Specere Mural, 2022, acrylic on wall and oil on canvas stage muslin, hanging rod, cables, 520 × 800 cm, at "Fun Feminism," Kunstmuseum Basel, 2022. Photo by Gina Folly. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich.

Since the mid-2010s Ebecho Muslimova has regularly exhibited works depicting Fatebe, a self-inspired, larger-than-life character whose feats of ridiculousness and perversity push against our natural instincts for humiliation and shame. Across drawings, paintings, and room-sized installations, Fatebe exists as a line-drawn entity, redistributing the limits of the body, decency, and the border between artistic illusion and experienced reality. But Muslimova’s works are more than just comic adventures. Instead, she harnesses her creation to depict universal feelings of otherness, awe, and possibility across two dimensions and actual space.