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I am Pourea Alimirzaee
and I’m a visual artist.

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I'm a painter.

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And, I came to Austria around 2015, so,

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that's what we are now.

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eight years ago,
and I came to Austria to study

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in the Conservatorium for studying and,

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for bass guitar, jazz loops.

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But after one year of studying
at the Conservatorium, I felt that

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that studies are not made for me
to experiment things in art scene.

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It felt that they are very conservative,
in the way of teaching and

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they want to create handcraftsmen,
rather than artists.

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And, that's why I didn’t feel
that’s my space to be in.

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And then a year after I quit
my studies at the Conservatorium

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and I applied for the Academy of Fine Arts.

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That's why right now I'm studying

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in the Academy of Fine Arts. Yeah.

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So, Yeah,

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as you see,
this is this is one of my recent paintings

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that I made, and I do work with collages.

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So I have mixed these different materials
with my paintings.

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And then I want to sort of combine

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these two different surfaces
with each other and then have a dialog

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between these sort of a rough
sort of an elephant skin, texture

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with that, sort of a fluid, soft,
tender surface as well.

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And I like these things because
I'm interested about those opposite sides.

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And I do think that's the,
that's my main sort of,

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topic that I want to bring
about human beings and about masculinity,

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about, you know, sort of rethinking
of our masculinity, and so on.

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And, so putting those sort of toughness
and softness at the same time in one person.