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In this new work premiering at the Festival, Bristol-based artist Amak Mahmoodian examines the experience of dreaming for individuals living in exile. Working with 16 collaborators, all of whom are exiled from their native countries, Mahmoodian uses photography, poetry, drawing and video to explore the new lives created through dreams, as well as the ways in which dreaming enables individuals to return to a past that cannot be reached while awake. The title, One Hundred and Twenty Minutes, refers to the average time a person spends dreaming each night. The project was supported and commissioned by Multistory and D6: Culture in Transit.
About Amak Mahmoodian
Working with photography, text, video, drawing and archives, Mahmoodian’s artistic practice explores the representation of gender, identity and displacement, weaving connections between the personal and the political. She has published two books: Shenasnameh (RRB & IC Visual Lab, 2016), which was shortlisted for the First Author Book Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles; and Zanjir (RRB, 2019), which was the winner of the Photo Text Book Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles. Mahmoodian completed a practice-based doctorate in photography at the University of South Wales (2015) and currently works as a senior lecturer at the University of the West of England.
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