Mamali Shafahi is an artist and film-maker whose practice ranges from sculpture to performance art and video installation. For Freaky Dancing, Mamali continues to work around the concept Phantasmagoria. Phantasmagoria, as a term, describes his perception of contemporaneity where, in the realm of visual entertainment, the boundaries between reality and imagination blur. His works provide a getaway to the realms of fantasy while paying tribute to his Iranian heritage. Within a mesmerising environment of optical illusions, viewers are transported beyond their everyday experience into a state of equilibrium between the magical and the terrible, fantasy and horror.

Commissioned project: KOSMOSE

For the upcoming edition of Freaky Dancing, artist Mamali Shafahi and performance collective Pensive Vivifier create an immersive multimedia performance named KOSMOSE.
Within this project, their art practices collide and influence each other, drawing inspiration from Shafahi’s Phantasmagoria sculptures and Pensive Vivifier’s thematics such as identity and transformation. Together they’re creating a new interdisciplinary work where show, performance, costumes, art installations and clubbing will fuse into a brand-new experience for themselves and the audience.