“THUNDERBLOOM ”
HOSSEI
2 Sept → 14 Oct 2023

THUNDERBLOOM the musical, live performance, 16 Sept, 4 – 5 am

A photograph of Nahid, HOSSEI's mother. She is looking up towards the skys, lighting fills the background of the image.
HOSSEI, THUNDERBLOOM, 2023. Photograph by Jacquie Manning.

West Space is delighted to premiere THUNDERBLOOM by Sydney-based artist HOSSEI.

THUNDERBLOOM broadens established ideas of care within migrant families, by exploring the relationship between mother and son through a framework of healing.

HOSSEI presents an album of songs with accompanying music videos that centre his mother, Nahid. These songs recalibrate the relationship between mother and son, from one that privileges a hierarchy of responsibility, to one of collaborative exploration, curiosity, imagination and discovery.

THUNDERBLOOM celebrates all mothers, particularly those from migrant communities, by giving them a platform and a voice atypical of their perceived place in society.

Read on in HOSSEI's THUNDERBLOOM by Sebastian Henry-Jones and The Sound of Honey by Rachel Koumouris.

The limited edition THUNDERBLOOM vinyl record, featuring all 9 tracks, is available to purchase.

THUNDERBLOOM is presented as part of the West Space 2023 Commissions Program.

THUNDERBLOOM is made possible through Creative Australia and Create New South Wales, and is supported by Centre for Projection Art.

A photograph of artist HOSSEI's audio-visual artwork THUNDERBLOOM. Three screens glow with the projected images of performers, bright backgorund colours and captioned lyrics.
A photograph of artist HOSSEI's audio-visual artwork THUNDERBLOOM. Three screens glow with the projected images of performers, bright backgorund colours and captioned lyrics.
A photograph of artist HOSSEI's audio-visual artwork THUNDERBLOOM. Three screens glow with the projected images of performers, bright backgorund colours and captioned lyrics.
A photograph of the THUNDERBLOOM album vinyl record covers, mounted on the gallery wall.
A photograph of the THUNDERBLOOM exhibition text printed directly onto the gallery wall, the title written in Farsi.
A photograph of the artist HOSSEI and friends.
A photograph of visitors watching the THUNDERBLOOM premiere.
A photograph of visitors watching the THUNDERBLOOM premiere.
A photograph of visitors watching the THUNDERBLOOM premiere.
A photograph of visitors watching the THUNDERBLOOM premiere.
A photograph of the artist HOSSEI and friends at the THUNDERBLOOM opening celebration.

HOSSEI (b. 1985, Tehran) is a multidisciplinary Australian artist with Persian, Turkish and Russian ancestry. Across performance, voice and choral performance, his practice addresses his heritage, fantasies and feelings, and notions of togetherness and healing. He adopts themes of secrecy, the unconscious, theatricality and mysticism to create surreal scenarios through real and imagined characters. Recently his work has addressed his mother as a subject, entering her psyche and telling her life experiences and stories.