ON VIEW NOW
ELHAM ESHRAGHIAN-HAAKANSSON
THE END IS GLORIOUS IF WE ONLY
PERSEVERE
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detail still: Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, The End Is Glorious If We Only Persevere, 2019, three channel video, 14:51 mins.Image courtesy of the Artist and MOORE CONTEMPORARY.
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MOORE CONTEMPORARY is pleased to announce The End is Glorious if We Only Persevere by Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, is now on view.
Eshraghian-Haakansson graduated from UWA with first class honour in 2017 and is nearing completion of her Masters by Research. Her work has been selected for numerous national showings and has been recognised with early career Awards. In 2018 she was awarded the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Fellowship associated with the Hatched Exhibition at PICA, and in 2019 was a finalist in the John Stringer Prize. In 2020 she was the overall winner of the Joondalup Invitation Art Prize.
In that year Eshraghian-Haakansson also Co-founded and is a Lead Artist of the Second Generation Collective, which brings together, through creative pursuits, the generation of children born of parents displaced by the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The Iranian diaspora and its cultural and emotional implications is a key exploration within her work. Her sophisticated and commanding film work is often built from personal narrative merged with archived footage, and yet is ultimately a poetic and expressive meditation upon the desire for universal values of empathy.
The three channel video The End is Glorious, If We Only Persevere is accompanied with a new series of six block mounted photographs.
Exhibition on view until 20th March
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MEET THE ARTIST
An event will be held in the Gallery
to introduce the Artist and hear her speak to
her project.
Saturday 20th March
4:00pm - 5:30pm
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detail still: Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, The End Is Glorious If We Only Persevere, 2019, three channel video, 14:51 mins.Image courtesy of the Artist and MOORE CONTEMPORARY.
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Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, Untitled, 2020, laminated block mount print on aluminium subframe, 15 x 21cm Ed 5. Image courtesy of the Artist and MOORE CONTEMPORARY.
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ARTIST ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Arabic Healing prayer written by The Báb, Herald of the Bahá’í Faith, translates to,
‘O God, Praised and Holy! O God, Merciful and Kind! Remove us from difficulties by Thy grace and favour. Verily, Thou art Merciful and Kind‘.
The written text within the film, comes from a compilation of talks, (The Pitiful Causes of War, and the Duty of Everyone to Strive for Peace) given by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá during his first stay in Paris, from October to December 1911.
‘The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established,’ proclaimed by the Manifestation of God, Prophet of the Bahá’í Faith, Bahá’u’lláh, within the scripture Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh.
Point by Point, poem by poet, Táhirih The Pure One | Credit |
Director of Photography: Elliott Nieves
DOP Assistant: David Attwell
Sound Mixer: Against Odds Productions Sound Producer: Moss Street Productions
Cast:
Misha Noori Armaan Zamani
New Era Bahá’í Choir:
Mei Swan Lim
Rachel Parker-Roohi Jasmine Bell-Roohi Jennifer Williamson-Habibi
Vocalist:
Shahnaz Pirmoradi
Special Thanks to The New Era Bahá’í Choir, The Bahá’í Archives Committee, Bahá’í World Centre, Bahá’í Community of Perth, Sholeh Pirmorady, Christian Haakansson, Shahnaz Pirmorady, Tom Price, Bijan Khadem Missagh, Shapour Daneshmand, Dr. Ionat Zurr, Sarah Douglas, Nick Mahoney & Vladimir Todorovic
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