A screening of fugue notes (2025) by Selina Ershadi. As well as introducing the film and her practice the artist will perform its script live. Two additional guests will read select material from the artists library currently on display in Artspace Aotearoa's reading room.
This kaupapa is presented by Artspace Aotearoa in association with CIRCUIT.
fugue notes (2025) was commissioned by CIRCUIT with the support of Creative New Zealand for Leap to the Place of Two Pools (2025), curated by Erin Gleeson. Taking into account moving image’s traditional emphasis on the visual, Leap to the Place of Two Pools presented five new works by artists who resist or relinquish ocular-centrism through multi-sensorial knowledge systems.
This screening is presented in association with the exhibition The Blue Dome, 25 April – 4 July 2026 at Artspace Aotearoa.
Selina Ershadi is an Iranian-born, Aotearoa based artist who works across filmmaking and writing, drawing upon personal and familial histories and archives. Ershadi’s work complicates straight-forward autobiography and troubles the camera’s relationship to lived reality, making visible the risks and failures that haunt any act of documenting. Her film Amator (2019), co-made with her mother Azita Chegini, is the first Farsi language artwork in the Te Papa Tongawera collection. Ershadi's work has been exhibited widely including Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, The Physics Room, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and the 2025 BFI London Film Festival.