Nooshin Farhid, was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently resides and works in London. Her artistic practice primarily focusses on multimedia installations, with a particular emphasis on moving images. Farhid's approach is inspired by the concept of collage, combining various elements such as text, sound, drawing, animation, photography, and found objects to produce immersive mixed media installations.
Narratives emerge through this process of visual and audio ‘realignment’. Her written texts oscillate between the poetic and the factual, the personal and the political, recited by actors in the form of voiceovers and overlaid onto a composed soundtrack created by the artist. The spoken word weaves the fragmented narratives together contextually and rhythmically. Farhid makes distinctive use of filmic genres and tropes. Nonetheless film is not a primary concern of hers, but rather the portrayal of the human condition both in a direct documentary format and an allegorical style.
