Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA) and TOWARDS SOUND present the exhibition
Rooted in Iran 
Artifacts of sketching  by Iranian female composers 
HilbertRaum Berlin
Opening: 15.01.2021 POSTPONED
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©Atefeh Einali
 sketch for  I Am From Nowhere (for Solo Accordion)

As silent witnesses of the creative process, sketchbooks, notes and drawings provide insight into the everyday work of fourteen female composers from Iran. In short audio and video contributions, the composers tell the stories behind their sketches: of the effort to fit the meter of Persian poetry into Flamenco rhythms whilst doing justice to both cultures; of the attempt to connect the Persian with the Western tonal system through abstract formal drawings; of the mourning for a tree cut down out of greed. 
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The contributions of the individual women are as individual as their current life situations in Iran, in emigration in the USA, Canada and Europe or as those who have emigrated and returned home again  All participants are members of the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA), whose goal is to support female composers facing profound cultural and pedagogical obstacles in their home country on their way into the national and international contemporary music scene.

The exhibition is curated by Ruth Wiesenfeld in collaboration with the Iranian Female Composers Association in (IFCA).

 Featuring contributions by
Anahita Abbasi, Atefeh Einali, Farzia Fallah, Nilufar Habibian, Golfam Khayam, Martyna Kosecka, Afarin Mansouri, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Farnaz Ohadi, Arezou Rezaei, Parisa Sabet,  Elnaz Seyedi, Aida Shirazi, Negin Zomorodi/Sam Esfehani