17 Midland Road
17 Midland Rd, Bristol BS2 0JT
15 Oct to
17 Nov 2024
Thu-Sun
12pm - 6pm
In this new work commissioned by Multistory, 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 & Twenty Minutes, refers to the average time a person spends dreaming each night.
About Amak Mahmoodian:
An award-winning multidisciplinary artist and educator from Iran. Amak began her career as a research-based photographer at the Art University of Tehran in Iran in 2003. Since 2007, she has been living in the UK where she practices as a visual artist and lecturer in Photography. In 2015, she completed a practice-based doctorate in photography at the University of South Wales.
Working with photography, text, video, drawing and archives at the intersection of conceptual and documentary photography, Amak’s artistic practice explores the presentation of gender, identity and displacement, bridging a space between the personal and political.
Amak’s projects are produced across platforms, such as installations, books and films. Her work has been shown extensively and won numerous awards. She has published two books, Shenasnameh (RRB- ICV Lab, 2016), which was shortlisted for The First Author book award Rencontres Arles, and Zanjir (RRB, 2019), which was the winner of The Best Photo Text book award Rencontres Arles.
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