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Raheleh Filsoofi | Say Their Names
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Raheleh Filsoofi | Say Their Names
What if the inside world of a vessel became a macrocosm where fury and grief could be stored? Through a performative act, the artist speaks the names of the lost and imprisoned protestors in Iran’s current uprising, creating an aural archive of the current moment for future generations to hear.

Raheleh Filsoofi is a collector of soil and sound, an itinerant artist, feminist curator, and community service advocate. Her work synthesizes socio-political statements as a point of departure and further challenges these fundamental arguments by incorporating ancient and contemporary media such as ceramics, poetry, ambient sound, and video. Her interdisciplinary practices act as the interplay between the literal and figurative contexts of land, ownership, immigration, and border. Her work has been shown individually and collaboratively both in Iran and the US. She is the recipient of grants and awards, including the 2021 Southern Prize Tennessee State Fellowship and South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists. She is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Art at Vanderbilt University. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Florida Atlantic University and a BFA in Ceramics from Al-Zahra University in Tehran, Iran.