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A darkened gallery space with three brightly coloured digital artworks on display.

17 Oct

Exhibition Tour: Seven Portraits – Unbound

Join this exhibition tour with Dr. Sofi Basseghi, Salme Geransar and Curator, Linda Short, for Seven Portraits – Unbound (2025), a multichannel video installation that explores notions of freedom expressed by Persian-speaking female poets across the past millennium, interpreted through performance.

Drawing on and reimagining Nizami Ganjavi’s Haft Peykar (Seven Portraits) and 16th-century Persian miniature illuminations of this tale from the State Library of Victoria’s collection, the work weaves fact and fiction to reflect on women’s voices in history while resonating with contemporary socio-political contexts.

This tour is a collaboration between Next Wave and CAST for 'Archives are Hot! Artists in the Archive' – a two-day program of workshops, talks and activations.

This event is supported by City of Melbourne.

Date	Times
Fri 17 Oct	9:00am - 10:00am

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