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The Substation, 1 Market Street, Newport, Victoria 3015, Australia
Dates
30 April 2021
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Wed–Thu 12–6pm
Fri 12–8pm
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Talk/​Free
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Artist Sofi Basseghi speaks to our Curator at Large, Nikki Lam, about her exhibition Ripples from the Unseen currently showing at The Substation. Sofi’s exhibition collaborators Ehsan Khoshnami, Ai Yamamoto and Salme Geransar will also take part in this panel discussion.

Ripples from the Unseen is an immersive experimental video installation where women of Basseghi’s generation born post the 1979 Iranian Revolution and during the Iran/Iraq war (1980-1988) inhabit the chambers of The Substation. Created over a six-year period and depicted through a diasporic lens, this exhibition reveals fragments of an underground revolution through emotionally charged videos of women’s lived experiences. Her empowering work reveals how restrictions on women’s freedom have paradoxically been the driving force for them to exceed and excel on diverse platforms overcoming numerous obstacles. Basseghi has collaborated with numerous people to bring this project to life including sound artist Ai Yamamoto, installation designer and architect Ehsan Khoshnami and performers including actor Salme Geransar and the generous contribution of women in Iran.

Feature image: Sofi Basseghi, video still from Elysium, 2021

Gallery images: Sofi Basseghi In Conversation, The Substation, 2021, Photos:
Damien Laing

Special thanks to Dominic Redfern, Keely Macarow, and the community at RMIT University.

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