‘The idea of play in relation to painting also became very important for me. Play opened up to slapstick. The manner in which the paintings are done, their looseness,gives space for these interpretations. Of course there is the funny funny and the not so funny funny. Humour and satire are certainly effective forms of approaching difficult subjects. I’m also very interested in the physical sense of release that humour can give us’ (T. Madani, quoted in, ‘Tala Madani: Exhibition Notes’, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham 2014, reproduced at http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/sites/default/files/ MadaniExhibitionNotes.pdf).