تولد دوباره | TAVALODE DOBĀRE
REBORN
November 2025
Kunstraum (London, UK)
Tavalode Dobāre is a story of a journey, as we follow Setareh, a wandering soul, embodying different forms through layers of temporality & consciousness.
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From dream-state stars to the realm of reality, Setareh find herself following a spiritual wound, until left with a melancholic hope in human form.
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Through a transcultural use of Persian, Sicilian & Sufi poetry, music & ritual practice, this audiovisual work nestles an individual’s grief within a collective pain & longing for clarity.
“An incredible experience…evocative, meditatory and spiritual”
(Patrick Holzen, Intermusica)
"Tavalode Dobare is a testament to Roxanna’s ability to create work
that is at once expansive and rooted, culminating in a
spiritual aesthetic that has a contemporary feel."
(Alia Alzougbi, Shubbak)
“A visceral journey and the sensibility between Roxanna and Salvo was beautiful”
(audience member)
"In a reality, filled with disconnect, confusion and separation,
arrives Roxanna Albayati’s Tavalode Dobare - a beautiful reminder of the
collective consciousness path, a journey each and every one needs to experience."
(Millie Kotseva, Culture TOLD)
Music
Co-Developed with Salvo Bella
Further creative development | Nicole Bettencourt Coelho & Aliya Harafah
Sound design and audio engineering | Nicole Bettencourt Coelho & Alaa Yussry
Film
Additional videography | Tasalla Tabasom & Sebastiano Pavia
Colour grading & assistant editing | Clara Finch
Poetry
Sicilian interpretation | Salvo Bella & Giorgio Cortolillo
Arabic interpretion | Aliya Harafah
Further creative advice | my parents & Mina K
Project Manager | Neath Champion-Shorr
Supported by and with thanks to | Arts Council England, Kunstraum, Milo Agriproductions & Abastan Community
Event Photos | Bea Dero
Gratitude | Himali Singh Soin, Linda Hirst, Ed Cooper
سه خاک | Seh Khak
Three Lands
"Three Lands" is a project that begins with the personal story of three women who are trying to find an identity, starting from the territory that unites them, Iran, and seeking a close relationship with the historical, social and political state of the country that is currently going through a Revolution beyond its "borders". The project explores identity; homeland; dialogue, differences and similarities between East-West, through the multidisciplinary fusion of movement, video, music and spoken word, which, by merging, form new lines of communication between them and become a reflection of their diasporas.
This project was created by Rebecca Moradalizadeh, Roxanna Albayati, and Golara Khalilinejad, and was supported by Criatório 2023, Porto City Council.
July 2024
Espaçio MIRA & CRL (Porto, Portugal)
Performance Preview
شکار آزادی | SHEKARE ĀZĀDI
CHASING FREEDOM
April 2025
Dentro Gallery, (Porto, Portugal)
SHEKĀRE ĀZĀDI (Chasing Freedom) is a performative dialogue of generations, the struggle of inner and outer worlds colliding, confronting, and finding space to heal. Through interdisciplinary storytelling, it takes a personal as well as location-based journey, where the audience are invited to experience a diasporic chase for freedom, dedicated to the women of Iran.
This series of works began formation over the course of 2022, first premiered during Roxanna's solo residency at Zaratan Arte Contemporânea (Lisbon), and subsequently re-commissioned in 2024 as part of Zaratan's performance cycle "VOLTAS", in collaboration with Rebecca Moradalizadeh. In November 2024, the music was premiered in London, at the Boundary Condition Anniversary event, and in spring 2025, this body of works will feature in Roxanna’s first solo exhibition, at Dentro Gallery (Porto).
"In exhibitions, we are usually eluded by the processes - what is unseen, unheard – and here, specifically, the ground that is not stepped on, symbolised by a part of the body amputated before it could even become whole. A transgenerational diaspora that, articulated with the movement for women’s liberation and empowerment in Iran, allows for the construction of a path that transcends the creator’s individuality and extends to her community: a community dispersed, excluded, dismembered across the world.
Despite the devastating, oppressive, and violent undertone of Albayati’s body of work, there is also lightness and depth, another sense of time, if we allow it...where we are overwhelmed by powerful emotions, that do not suffocate, but move us. When they try to steal our hope, the answer is to keep dreaming."
From 'What Escapes Us' - Susana Chiocca, curator's text
Curator | Susana Chiocca
Additional videography | Soraya S & Erfaan Mahmoodi
Featuring | Šur for cello and live electronics by Roxanna Albayati and Marat Ingeldeev
Additional voice artists | Rebecca Moradalizadeh & Zora Za
Animation | Argha
Audio editing | Sami El-Enany
Documentation | Yasmine Moradalizadeh
Gratitude | to Mina K, Erfaan Mahmoodi, Rebecca Moradalizadeh & Mejlis Institute
Supported by | Arts Council England, Help Musicians & Abastan Factory