Atoosa Pour Hosseini, “The Magic Circle” Performance, 2023, 25 minutes, 16mm projections, live sound at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin. Documented by Ros Kavanagh. Courtesy of the artist and Experimental Film Society.
Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Polaroid photograph, 2024, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Courtesy of the artist.
Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Polaroid photograph, 2024, Place des Vosges, Paris. Courtesy of the artist.
Atoosa Pour Hosseini, “The Magic Circle” Performance, 2023, 25 minutes, 16mm projections, live sound at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin. Documented by Ros Kavanagh. Courtesy of the artist and Experimental Film Society.
Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Polaroid photograph, 2024, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Courtesy of the artist.
Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Polaroid photograph, 2024, Place des Vosges, Paris. Courtesy of the artist.
The Magic Circle
Atoosa Pour Hosseini
Atoosa Pour Hosseini is the laureate of the three-month Cité Internationale des Arts x Institut Français residency, which took place from April to July 2024.
During this residency, she benefited from a studio-apartment at the Cité Internationale provided by the Institut Français, a residency grant, curatorial support and networking opportunities with art professionals from the Bétonsalon team to assist her in developing her research.
Research project
Following a residency at the Irish Cultural Centre in March 2024, Atoosa Pour Hosseini continued her research on films produced by female directors in France from the 1920s to the present day, such as Germaine Dulac, Jackie Raynal, Chantal Akerman, Maya Deren, Katerina Thomadaki and Maria Klonaris. This residency in Paris allowed her to consult the film catalogues of Lightcone and the Collectif Jeune Cinéma, as well as the archives of numerous institutions, including the Cinémathèque française and the Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir, and to make contact with experimental film production studios. This research has enabled her to deepen her knowledge of the links between performance, body politics and the emergence of expanded cinema.
Atoosa Pour Hosseini
Atoosa Pour Hosseini is an Iranian-Irish artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Dublin. She holds a degree in Fine Art Media from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and a degree in Fine Art and Painting from the Azad Faculty of Art and Architecture in Tehran. She has recently participated in exhibitions and screenings at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, 2023), fsk Kino am Oranienplatz (Berlin, 2023), Jeu de Paume (Paris, 2021), Project Arts Centre (Dublin, 2021) and the Museum of Moving Image (New York, 2017). She is currently co-director of the Experimental Film Society, based in Ireland. Influenced by avant-garde cinema, she is interested in the mechanisms of perception and explores the boundary between illusion and reality through films, video installations, sculptures and performances.
Atoosa Pour Hosseini’s residency was supported by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (Dublin) and Bétonsalon, partners of this residency.
