Gut Feelings 2.0 is the first large scale exhibition by Iranian multidisciplinary artist and writer Kasra Jalilipour, launching 6 June, 2025 at Grand Union, Birmingham.
Gut Feelings 2.0 is an exploration of ‘queer’ lives and rebellions in 19th Century Iran, which have been purposefully hidden away from the public consciousness. Although at times, queerness has played a key and obvious role in Iranian art and literature, societal structures have ensured that it has been erased from historical memory despite always having existed in the culture.
Exhibition launch: Friday 6 June, 5-8pm
Exhibition open: Saturday 7 June – Saturday 16 August
Gut Feelings 2.0 will take place alongside an expanded public programme in Spring/Summer 2025 and is generously supported by Arts Council England Project Grant, Jerwood New Art Fund, and LEVEL Centre.
Further details will be shared in the coming weeks. Pre-show information will be available in due course and will be updated with further information as the show is installed.
About the Artist
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Kasra Jalilipour (b.1995, Esfahan) is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, and writer, based in Derbyshire. They work in a variety of mediums including sculpture, works on paper, moving image and live performance. Through looking at histories and speculative fiction, their work takes on the role of recreating archival histories of queerness and transness, and at times they do this by looking at how religion intersects with these often unarchived histories. Solo exhibitions include; Haarlem Artspace (Wirksworth), Gasleak Mountain (Nottingham), Arcade-Campfa x BayArt (Cardiff), GAVU (Prague).
You can find Kasra Jalilipour’s website here.
