
Habitat Sonore: Listening room
May 3 → June 22
Tune out the everyday noise and lose yourself in Montréal’s new immersive listening room
PHI Centre
Espace 1 and Habitat Sonore
407 Saint-Pierre St
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2M3
Monday and Tuesday:
Closed
Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday:
11 AM to 7 PM
Friday and Saturday:
11 AM to 9 PM
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
16 years old +
General admission: $25
Student and senior admission: $23
Price including service fees, excluding taxes
This exhibition addresses sensitive topics, which are specified here.
Before visiting, please review some essential information about the visit, including details on accessibility at the Centre.
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The Fury is a striking and moving tale about the enduring trauma experienced by a fictional female political prisoner.
The Fury, created by Shirin Neshat, is a two-part narrative that takes the audience through the emotional turmoil experienced by the Iranian protagonist. The artwork is presented through a two-channel video and depicts the psychological and emotional state of a woman who remains haunted by violent memories of her detention. The narrative continues with a virtual reality work that transports the audience to experience the physical and emotional charge of this woman.
Trigger warning: This exhibition addresses issues of sexual violence against women and other potentially uncomfortable topics.
In a highly fictionalized and stylized approach, The Fury explores the sexual exploitation of female political prisoners, referencing the Islamic Republic of Iran's brutal treatment of political prisoners.
During this double-channel video, we follow the psychological and emotional state of a woman who, while now on free, remains haunted by memories of sexual assault, torture and rape from her detention. Throughout this riveting narrative, the artist, Shirin Neshat, poignantly addresses the issue of the female body as both an object of desire and of violence. The Fury is a combination of cinematic flashbacks and dream visions, where Neshat uses music and movement to process and convey the protagonist's trauma.
The Fury is also complemented by a virtual reality (VR) work, where Neshat captures a pivotal scene from the artwork with an all-encompassing effect allowing the spectator to experience the same physical and emotional charge lived by the protagonist. The VR work is a strong example of how the medium can amplify the characteristically exotic and breathtaking imagery that characterizes Neshat's body of work.
Presented by
PHI
A work by
Shirin Neshat
Actress
Sheila Vand
Executive Producer
Shoja Azari
Music & Sound Design
Johnny Azari
Vocals
Emel Mathlouthi
Special Effects
Adam Bailey
Costumes
Giulia Theodoli
Makeup
Crystal Gossman
VR film
Produced for Vibrog Kunstahal in collaboration with Khora Contemporary and The Animation Workshop
VR filming and production
Christopher Schnoor and Peter Fisher
Locations
The 1896 Studios & Stages
Officers
Tony Azar, Roeg Cohen, Antonio Comas, Ralph Louis Davila, John G, Hugo Huerta Marin, Federico Navarro, Vladimir Radojicic, Tonino Salvini, Efrain Santiago, Urko Suarezaz, Vito Tondo, Frank Wood, Joseph Zamarelli
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker living in New York. Neshat works and continues to experiment with the mediums of photography, video and film, which she imbues with highly poetic and politically charged images and narratives. They question issues of power, religion, race, gender and the relationship between the past and present, East and West, individual and collective, through her experiences as an Iranian woman living in exile.
Neshat has held numerous solo exhibitions at museums internationally including the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Texas); The Broad, Los Angeles; Museo Correr, Venice, Italy; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Neshat has directed three feature-length films, Women Without Men (2009), which received the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, Looking For Oum Kulthum (2017), and most recently Land of Dreams, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival (2021).
Neshat was awarded the Golden Lion Award, the First International Prize at the 48th Biennale di Venezia (1999), the Hiroshima Freedom Prize (2005), the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2006) and in 2017, she received the prestigious Praemium Imperiale Award in Tokyo.
She is represented by Gladstone Gallery in New York and Goodman Gallery in London.
To continue your immersive journey at the PHI Centre, tickets to this exhibition include access to Habitat Sonore, PHI's immersive listening room.
Relax and discover a new way to enjoy the local and international music landscape through the 360-degree sound experience in Habitat Sonore after visiting The Fury.
Stay tuned, the new programming starting June 28 will be announced soon!
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