MEN OF MY DREAMS | 2020

"Commissioned by Cell Project Space in London, UK, the film is part of Queer Correspondence, a mail art initiative curated by Eliel Jones. Distributed in a bespoke USB drive, MEN OF MY DREAMS unfolds a series of vignettes that toy with the unstable ground between fact and fiction. Thinking about this past as being materially present in fragments of knowledge carried by the body, MEN OF MY DREAMS delves into the artist’s personal history by invoking a group of men that surrounded the artist through their writing, singing, filming and activism while growing up in Tehran and moving to the US, including: writers Edward Said and Roberto Bolaño; poet Federico Garcia Lorca; filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini; singer Farhad Mehrad; Iranian journalist and poet Khosrow Golesorkhi; and also Saeed, her father."

--Eliel Jones, Associate Curator at Cell Project Space

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