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ملاحت محب خواه متولد 1366 در شهر رشت است. او دانش آموخته‌ی لیسانس نقاشی از دانشگاه هنراصفهان وسپس فوق لیسانس نقاشی از دانشگاه هنر تهران است. ملاحت از سال 1389 تاکنون در نمایشگاه های گروهی متعددی در ایران، کانادا و آمریکا شرکت داشته است
او در سال ۱۳۹۳ با نمایش مجموعه پل برنده‌ی جایزه پرویز ملکی از هفتمین منتخب نسل نو شده است
موضوع اغلب آثار ملاحت محب‌خواه دریانگاره‌هاییست با انبوهی از پرتره‌ها و فیگورهای درگیر درآب. او طیف وسیعی از متریال، از جمله رنگ روغن روی بوم، ویترای روی پلکسی و استیل یا مرکب و ماژیک روی کاغذ را در خدمت بیان طراحی‌های فیگوراتیو اکسپرسیونیستی‌اش می‌گیرد
ملاحت در رابطه با مجموعه آبدیدگان که در گالری شیرین رونمایی میشود اینگونه می‌گوید
آبدیده‌گان روایت من است از مناسبات انسانی، تکه هایی از آنچه میان من و آدمیان شکل گرفته و نقطه‌ی تلاقی بین میل و رخوت. برای شکل دادن به این مجموعه من از پرتره‌ی نزدیکانم و دریای خزر عکاسی کردم و بعد وقت کشیدن پرتره‌ها و خطوطی که در برشان گرفته به عکس‌ها نگاه کردم. من از رنگ روغن بر روی پارچه‌ی بوم استفاده کردم تا بافت جسمی و ضخیم و کیفیت رنگی دلخواهم را، به ویژه در سفیدی‌ها، به دست بیاورم. در اغلب کارها، پرتره هایی به مرور زمان پوشانده شده و پرتره‌های دیگری سر برآورده‌اند و تصویر به تدریج تخریب و ساخته شده است. این نقاشی‌ها لایه‌های اندوه من را در خود دارند. گویی که در گودالی باشم و بازی کنم، بی توجه به خطرات احتمالی مرگ و دفن شدن، من یک مشاهده‌گر تلخ گوشتم که کاری نمی‌توانم کرد جز سوگواری برای تکه های از دست رفته وهم‌آغوش شدن با آن و خودم را از درون و بیرون بهش رساندن
در یادبود برای شهری که ناپدید میشود من از ویرانه گردی هایم وام گرفتم. تکه های سفال ها را پیدا کردم و کنار هم گذاشتم و خانه‌های در شرف ویرانی یا ویران شهر را کشیدم، به گزیده. من فقط یک زندگی ام، در برابر سیل عظیمِ زندگی هایی که در شهر می پیچند و بازش می‌شناسند و این فقط یک جور مرثیه سرائیست، برای تجربه ای جمعی، که جان می‌سپارد در آغوشمان و جای می‌سپارد به دردی جمعی
Malahat Mohebkhah was born in 1987 in Rasht city. She graduated with a BA in painting from the University of Arts of Isfahan, and then an MA degree in painting from Tehran University of Art. She has participated in various group exhibitions in Iran, Canada, and the United States since 2010.
In 2014, she won the Parviz Maleki prize from the Seventh Montakhab-e Nasl-e No.
The subject of most of her artworks is oceanography with a host of portraits and figures involved with water. She takes on a wide range of materials, including oil-on-canvas paint, Vitray on plexiglass and steel or mark on paper, to express her expressionistic figurative drawings.
As she said:
The Waterbeholders is my narrative of human interrelations. Fragments which have been emerged between me and others, the confluence of desire and lassitude.
For whipping this collection into shape, I captured the portrait of my relatives and landscapes of Caspian Sea and while drawing their portrait, and weaving the lines I looked at the photos.
I have used oil on canvas, so that the texture would look bulky and thick and so that I will be able to cast my color modalities on white areas. In most of these paintings, portraits have been filled over time, emerging new ones, and the pictures were gradually destructed and built.
These paintings contain my layers of grief. As if I was stirring beneath them, not knowing about dangers of being buried underneath, I am only a bitter beholder of the flesh who cannot do, but to grieve over their lost parts and to try to reach for them.
In Memorial for The Disappearing City, I have put my wanderings into use. I have found and put together the clay shards and selectively drawn the houses in the city which were about to lay in ruins.
I am only one life, before the great flood of lives of the others, which flow across and scrutinize the city. And this is only a requiem for our common experience, that burns dead within our arms and from its ashes rises a familiar pain.
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Overview and HistoryTehran is the capital of Iran and the largest city in the Middle East, with a population of fifteen million people living under the peaks of the Alborz mountain range.Although archaeological evidence places human activity around Tehran back into the years 6000BC, the city was not mentioned in any writings until much later, in the thirteenth century. It's a relatively new city by Iranian standards.But Tehran was a well-known village in the ninth century. It grew rapidly when its neighboring city, Rhages, was destroyed by Mongolian raiders. Many people fled to Tehran.In the seventeenth century Tehran became home to the rulers of the Safavid Dynasty. This is the period when the wall around the city was first constructed. Tehran became the capital of Iran in 1795 and amazingly fast growth followed over the next two hundred years.The recent history of Tehran saw construction of apartment complexes and wide avenues in place of the old Persian gardens, to the detriment of the city's cultural history.The city at present is laid out in two general parts. Northern Tehran is more cosmopolitan and expensive, southern Tehran is cheaper and gets the name "downtown."Getting ThereMehrabad airport is the original one which is currently in the process of being replaced by Imam Khomeini International Airport. The new one is farther away from the city but it now receives all the international traffic, so allow an extra hour to get there or back.TransportationTehran driving can be a wild free-for-all like some South American cities, so get ready for shared taxis, confusing bus routes and a brand new shiny metro system to make it all better. To be fair, there is a great highway system here.The metro has four lines, tickets cost 2000IR, and they have segregated cars. The women-only carriages are the last two at the end, FYI.Taxis come in two flavors, shared and private. Private taxis are more expensive but easier to manage for the visiting traveler. Tehran has a mean rush hour starting at seven AM and lasting until 8PM in its evening version. Solution? Motorcycle taxis! They cut through the traffic and any spare nerves you might have left.People and CultureMore than sixty percent of Tehranis were born outside of the city, making it as ethnically and linguistically diverse as the country itself. Tehran is the most secular and liberal city in Iran and as such it attracts students from all over the country.Things to do, RecommendationsTake the metro to the Tehran Bazaar at the stop "Panzda Gordad". There you can find anything and everything -- shoes, clothes, food, gold, machines and more. Just for the sight of it alone you should take a trip there.If you like being outside, go to Darband and drink tea in a traditional setting. Tehranis love a good picnic and there are plenty of parks to enjoy. Try Mellat park on a friday (fridays are public holidays), or maybe Park Daneshjou, Saaii or Jamshidieh.Remember to go upstairs and have a look around, always always always! The Azadi Tower should fit the bill; it was constructed to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire.Tehran is also full of museums such as:the Contemporary Art Museumthe Abghine Musuem (glass works)the 19th century Golestan Royal Palace museumthe museum of carpets (!!!)Reza Abbasi Museum of extraordinary miniaturesand most stunning of all,the Crown Jewels Museum which holds the largest pink diamond in the world and many other jaw-dropping jewels.Text by Steve Smith.
