Tala Madani: the descent of man

Anyone desperate to find hope and humour in a country run by little men with big egos would do well to look at the art of Tehran-born, Los Angeles-based artist Tala Madani. Through her paintings, and also short stop-motion animations, she has a history of exposing the absurdities of a hyper-masculine and at times savagely phallic culture. Her speciality is depictingwith an economy of brush strokessad-sack, naked, misshapen, balding, middle-aged men who excrete, secrete and play with themselves