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"the best film in Savirón’s program, and the single biggest discovery in this year’s Museum of the Moving Image program, comes from Iranian-Irish filmmaker Atoosa Pour Hosseini. Mirage is a deceptively simple study of a set of fragments of a landscape. Muddy puddles and hilltops in a pinhole haze, we soon see these same images funneled through reverberating sprocket holes, yellow light pouring through the edges of the grainy, black and white earth. The nearly silent film reverses its terms, with the landscape getting sucked into a rogue sprocket and vibrating horizontally, plunging up and down like the needle in a sewing machine. And then, suddenly, the apparatus asserts itself: the Super 8 projector clacks, and we see the red stripe of end leader bisecting the visual field. Are these artifacts “invasions” of an otherwise unified terra firma? Or is it this very instability that defines this locale?  

 

And did I mention that Pour Hosseini accomplishes all of this in a mere four minutes? A propulsive yet painterly film that never lets up, Mirage does in fact dissipate the closer you get to it. And now, as we are assaulted by all manner of pigheaded certainty in the media and the political sphere, it is that much more of a relief that Mirage thwarts easy assimilation. If we mean to resist, after all, it may be necessary to resist meaning."

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-Michael Sicinski, MUBI Notebook "On Resistance" at First Look Festival, New York 2017

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini (b. Tehran, Iran 1981) is an Iranian-Irish visual artist and filmmaker based in Dublin, Ireland. She make film, performance, installation and sculpture to explore the influence of history and culture on the perception of reality and illusion.

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Pour Hosseini’s work has shown extensively at several galleries, museums, festivals, around the world and won numerous awards nationally and internationally. Her work has been shown at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; Irish Museum of Modern Art; Irish Film Institute; Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Kino Moviemento, Berlin; LUFF festival, Switzerland; Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran. 

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She was an awarded resident at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, and Centre Culturel Irlandais (CCI), Paris in 2024. Previously resident at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin 2019-2023, Sirius Art Centre; Cobh co.Cork in 2021; The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan in 2019; Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin in 2016; Amandus Adamson Studio Museum, Paldiski, Estonia in 2014; and The Guesthouse, Cork in 2013.

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Her monograph, Atoosa Pour Hosseini 2011-2021, was published by Oonagh Young Gallery in 2022. Pour Hosseini’s work is held in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Arts Council of Ireland, and International Institutes as well as private collections. 

 

She holds a MA in Fine Art Media from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and a BA in Fine Art Painting from the Azad University of Art and Architecture, Tehran. She has received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council, Culture Ireland, and Temple Bar Gallery and Studios. Her work has featured and reviewed in The Irish Times, RTÉ Culture, MUBI Notebook, Winter Papers, Totally Dublin, Visual Artists Ireland, among international film journals.

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