Tina Farifteh at the Backer+Rueb hall in Breda
A 24-hour journey along the Seedyk (sea dyke) in Friesland in 24 minutes. Tina Farifteh developed the installation specially for BredaPhoto. It is part of Tina in Sexbierum, a transmedia project about displacement, detachment and the simultaneous desire for a home and inability to feel at home in a society that continuously rejects you.
Forhanna supported Tina with her project that has been produced by the storytelling production agency Prospektor.
Tina Farifteh is a visual artist who came to the Netherlands from Tehran at the age of thirteen. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2021 with her project The Flood, which won several prizes, including the Royal Academy Bachelor Award.
Her documentary Kitten or Refugee? was awarded the first prize in the storytelling category at the Zilveren Camera awards in 2024.
Farifteh moved to Sexbierum because she could no longer find affordable housing in Amsterdam. Her friends returned to their hometowns, but she could not go back to Tehran.
‘If your way back home is cut off, you might as well go to a random place with a nice name and a beautiful view.’
