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Conic Trilogy Study 2 explores the idea of machinery through its rhythmical and continuous production processes, the early association with a human being is quickly supplanted by the power and energy of the heavy machine. Filmed in black and white there is a poetic quality to the images which is added to and emphasized through the early slowing down of the movement. The viewer is lured into this sense of the ?romance? of the machine and its potential for endless production and the efficiency to manage that production without human interference. However the outcome of this reliance on the mechanical is answered in the latter part of the film. This is a powerfully metaphorical work that relates to contemporary political systems and movements.

Nooshin Farhid was born in Tehran, Iran and lives in London. She has been involved in a number of exhibitions, screenings and festivals both nationally and internationally. Nooshin Farhid?s video works whilst employing different subjects and scenarios have a connecting thread, a commonality, namely there is a certain kind of agitation, a restlessness, a sense of things not being right. This agitation and an unwillingness to settle for what is ?on offer? ( this is the way things are ), reflects upon the current state of things socially, politically and ideologically. Though not overtly political, for such a strategy inevitably enables privileged authority to manipulate the artist into the cul de sac of irrelevance, this work continually picks away at those familiar stabilising forces we encounter on a daily basis both within the social space of the everyday but also within the domain of contemporary art itself. Farhid?s work is eclectic and conceptually nomadic, she uses the camera as a visual notebook collecting fragments of encounters, events, chance meetings that collectively question the incessant drive towards normality and conformity through the pressure of state surveillance.