Memories of a Distant City

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Omzol; Samin Ghoochi

Textile Art and Design

Samin Ghoochi (IR); Omid Zolfaghari (IR)

I left my homeland carrying an image of it with me. Now I read the news and try to match it to that memory, but the image keeps shifting. I know I will not find the same city I hold inside me. It feels as though I am looking at my own streets through a distant lens, trying to understand what has happened and where. I search for the homes of my friends and family in fragments of news and scattered images. The work invites touch, tracing the wounds and voices carried by the city.

I left my homeland carrying an image of it with me. Now I read the news and try to match it to that memory, but the image keeps shifting. I know I will not find the same city I hold inside me. It feels as though I am looking at my own streets through a distant lens, trying to understand what has happened and where. I search for the homes of my friends and family in fragments of news and scattered images.

The work invites touch, tracing the wounds and voices carried by the city.

Samin Ghoochi is an Iranian interdisciplinary visual artist based in Linz. She holds a Master’s degree in Painting and is currently studying Textil-Kunst-Design at University of Art and Design Linz. Her practice focuses on experimentation with materials and techniques, especially unconventional materials in unfamiliar contexts, while engaging social, political, and environmental themes. Omid Zolfaghari (OMZOL) is an Iranian musician and multidisciplinary artist based in Linz. He is pursuing a Master’s in Post-Digital Lutherie at University of Art and Design Linz. His work explores experimental instrument making and new forms of musical expression through performance. Alongside sound, he creates interactive systems and performative objects addressing media criticism, ecology, and human relations with computation and sensing technologies.

Samin Ghoochi is an Iranian interdisciplinary visual artist based in Linz. She holds a Master’s degree in Painting and is currently studying Textil-Kunst-Design at University of Art and Design Linz. Her practice focuses on experimentation with materials and techniques, especially unconventional materials in unfamiliar contexts, while engaging social, political, and environmental themes.

Omid Zolfaghari (OMZOL) is an Iranian musician and multidisciplinary artist based in Linz. He is pursuing a Master’s in Post-Digital Lutherie at University of Art and Design Linz. His work explores experimental instrument making and new forms of musical expression through performance. Alongside sound, he creates interactive systems and performative objects addressing media criticism, ecology, and human relations with computation and sensing technologies.