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Farnoush was born in Iran but she lives and works in London. She graduated from the Art Academy London in July 2019. Her work has been influenced by Iran's revolution, war, religion, and political situation. Her practice consists of installation and performance art in which she explores different materials from organic to man-made, using religious and cultural symbols. Her material language encompasses human hair, fabric, feather, metal, clay, concrete, ice, tarmac, and read-made objects which she uses to create tensions and relationships between organic and non-organic matter.

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Interview with Bita Fayyazi

Rather than a sculptor, installation artist, or ceramicist engaged in a somewhat mystic relationship with her materials, Bita Fayyazi (b. 1962, Iran) is an artist who works within a more performative and markedly social practice. Beginning in the mid-1990s, her artistic interventions challenged the official definitions of art that were often circulated in Tehran at that time. Fayyazi struggled to show her work amidst an atmosphere of traditionalism, academics, and the influx of 1990s conceptual art from abroad.

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Maryam Firuzi

Maryam Firuzi is a multimedia artist who works and lives in Tehran. Although her academic training was in Film (B.A) and Film Studies (M.A), graduating from Tehran Art University in 2016, her artistic field is not limited to filmmaking.

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Interview with Raoof Haghighi

Interview with Raoof Haghighi

Raoof Haghighi is an Iranian-born British artist, known for his portraiture and realism. He was born in 1976 in Shiraz,

Interview with Boshra

Interview with Boshra

Born in 1985 in Shiraz, Boshra is an Iranian poet, writer, actress, and model who was first introduced to Persian literature by her grandfather before starting primary school. She developed a precocious love of poets such as Iradj Mirza and Parvin E'tesami whose work inspired her to write her own poetry from a young age. Boshra later studied Children's Literature and Theatre at the BIHE University and eventually left Iran for the USA in 2009 where she currently resides.