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Nooshin Farhid, Red Leaves No Residue, 2014, single screen video, 30 mins
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Nooshin Farhid, Close To Me, 2013, Digital Print, on watercolour paper, framed
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Nooshin Farhid, Stripped I and Stripped II, 2012/13, Digital Prints on watercolour paper, framed
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Nooshin Farhid, Receptor I and IV, 2013, C-Prints, framed
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Nooshin Farhid, 'Shallow Water, Deep Skin', 2012, digital video, installation view and stills
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Nooshin Farhid, Conic Trilogy: Parabola, Hyperbola and Ellipsis, 2010/11, digital film triptych
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Nooshin Farhid, Sleepwalker, 2008, single screen video, 6:00 mins
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Nooshin Farhid, Flashpoint, 2006, single screen video, 16 :00 mins
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Nooshin Farhid, Mrs Hodge’s Frequent Use of Air Freshener, single screen video, 17:00 mins, 2005
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Nooshin Farhid, She Wants Me To Go To Heaven, 2001, single screen video , 16:00 mins
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Nooshin Farhid’s video works involve an extremely wide range of sources and subjects and display – according to Olivia Usher – ‘a connecting thread … a certain kind of agitation, a restlessness, a sense of things not being right’. What was right, however, was that Farhid was among the dozen artists included in the 2006 exhibition ‘Merz=’, curated by Peter Lewis for Bregenz Kunstverein in Austria, from whose catalogue Usher’s words are taken. In his essay for the same volume Lewis noted that ‘it is impossible, now … to believe in the unity of any social perception from a single-point perspective of knowledge … [the present situation] exchanges the transformation of formal representational systems for the transformation of the means and materials of representation’. Farhid’s work, though not directly cited here, seems nonetheless to be perfectly described by it.
Her practice not only raises questions about the impossibility of an unproblematic, neutral representation of truth, it aggravates and scrambles the conventional codes of video and filmic construction so as to open up these media to new modes of presentation and, concomitantly, to novel ways of reading the moving image.
As Paul Eachus rightly points out in an unpublished paper on Farhid from 2006, she does not make ‘political art but her work is made politically’, an observation that nicely indicates the restrained yet uncompromisingly interrogative approach Farhid employs.
In recent years Farhid has exhibited widely both internationally and in the UK, including at the Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam in 2011, Katara Art Center, Qator in 2011, the Marrakesh Biennale in 2012, and, in London, at Paradise Row in 2011, Beaconsfield in 2011, and The Agency in 2012.
Peter Suchin, excerpts from: Nooshin Farhid. Profile, Art Monthly, No. 358
July-August 2012
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