Nooshin Farhid was born in Tehran and lives and works in London. Her practice spans moving image, installation, sound, and text, using found and constructed material to form layered works that resist resolution. Collage is not simply a technique but a condition, through which tension, friction, and instability are brought into play.
Her installations bring image, sound, and language into volatile proximity. Each element carries its own pressure, where meaning veers between articulation and collapse, presence and withdrawal.
Text, whether written or spoken, is central. It moves between the poetic and the factual, the intimate and the political. Interwoven with image and sound, it becomes another material force within the work, both rhythmic and disruptive. Farhid’s practice is shaped by rupture, compression, and the disintegration of form. What emerges is not a stable whole, but a charged field where fragments persist, collide, and refuse containment.
