Through the use of various media, from video to painting, from drawing to photography, his research expresses a constant interest in the landscape as a mental space for experimentation. The attempt to carry out experiments as well as the achieving suspension during the contemplation of an image are elements that often return in his paintings, drawings, videos and sounds. Each single work, in fact, could be an attempt to focus on a landscape, to capture a detail, be it natural, urban or emotional.
Farid Rahimi - Afghanistan - Still from Video (Parwin in the Garden, Kabul, 70’s) - 2024 - HD Film - 75 mins - Courtesy of Farid Rahimi
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“An incredible expression of the diaspora experience, focused solely on Afghanistan, but without a single shot from the homeland.
Its tender, beautiful cinematography and music, creates the sense of the new, strange, and unfamiliar in the host countries, even decades after seeking refuge.
This thoughtfuland deeply moving film becomes a universal conversation on exile.”