The latest talk in our Art of the Maker series, a chance to hear artist Amak Mahmoodian discuss her work.
Amak Mahmoodian (born 1980, Shiraz, Iran) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist. She began her career in 2003 as a research-based photographer in Iran at the Art University of Tehran. Since 2007, she has been living in the UK where she practices as a visual artist and senior lecturer in Photography at the University of the West of England.
In 2015, she completed a practice-based PhD in photography at the University of South Wales. Working with photography, text, video, drawing, archives and sound at the intersection of conceptual and documentary photography, Amak’s artistic practice explores the presentation of gender, identity and displacement, bridging a space between personal and political. Amak’s projects are produced across installations, books and films. Her work has been shown extensively and has won numerous awards. It is held in collections and museums, including the Tate Modern and Victoria & Albert Museum in the UK. She has published two books, Shenasnameh (RRB- ICV Lab, 2016) which was shortlisted for The Author Book Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2016 and Zanjir (RRB, 2019) which won the Photo Text Book Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2020.
Her exhibition One Hundred and Twenty Minutes, at 17 Midland Road (16 October to 17 November) is part of the 2024 Bristol Photo Festival.
The Art of the Maker series is a collaboration between Arnolfini and The School of Art & Design and Centre for Fine Print Research at UWE Bristol.
