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BIO
Lilian Nejatpour is a British Iranian artist who shifts between making sculptural forms and sound structures. She often investigates displacement and duality through unique settings and experiences. With influences from ceremonial practices taken from Southern Iran and her northern background in bassline music from Bradford, much of her work is a hybridity between performance, sound and installation.
Her recent works ‘Choreophobia’ and ‘Foreign Sleep’ are rich in socio-political complexities from her own background, combining sound and theory to develop sculptures of bodies that resist and overlap in response to her own geographical displacement, sampling movements from northern bassline club culture and juxtaposing against gestures associated with the now-banned Iranian solo improvised dance.
Nejatpour’s practice investigates sonic displacements from her dual nationality, exploring various cultural tropes in sound that fail to fit into a “stable system of reference or historical memory”.
Recent shows include: Foreign Sleep performed at Bath Spa University and Strangelove Festival (2019) Choreophobia performed at Somerset House (2018), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2018) and Chisenhale Studios (2018).
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BIO
Lilian Nejatpour is a British Iranian artist who shifts between making sculptural forms and sound structures. She often investigates displacement and duality through unique settings and experiences. With influences from ceremonial practices taken from Southern Iran and her northern background in bassline music from Bradford, much of her work is a hybridity between performance, sound and installation.
Her recent works ‘Choreophobia’ and ‘Foreign Sleep’ are rich in socio-political complexities from her own background, combining sound and theory to develop sculptures of bodies that resist and overlap in response to her own geographical displacement, sampling movements from northern bassline club culture and juxtaposing against gestures associated with the now-banned Iranian solo improvised dance.
Nejatpour’s practice investigates sonic displacements from her dual nationality, exploring various cultural tropes in sound that fail to fit into a “stable system of reference or historical memory”.
Recent shows include: Foreign Sleep performed at Bath Spa University and Strangelove Festival (2019) Choreophobia performed at Somerset House (2018), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2018) and Chisenhale Studios (2018).
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