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FACT Liverpool: Kulendran Thomas & Noorizadeh
Feb 21 – May 11, 2025

Installation view: Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Peace Core (sphere), 2024, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann / Photo Andrea Rossetti

From Friday 21 February to Sunday 11 May, FACT presents two compelling exhibitions by artists Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Bahar Noorizadeh. The exhibitions invite visitors to explore the intersection of media, technology, and global politics, with Christopher Kulendran Thomas showcasing a major new body of work, Safe Zone – a collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, alongside a reimagined staging of Bahar Noorizadeh’s film Free to Choose. Within these powerful exhibitions, the artists encourage audiences to reconsider their relationship with politics, technology, economics, and societal structures while reflecting on how momentous events have shaped the world as we understand it today.

 

Installation view: Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Peace Core (sphere), 2024, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann / Photo Andrea Rossetti

Installation view: Christopher Kulendran Thomas: Safe Zone, FACT, Liverpool, 2025 / Photo Andrea Rossetti

Installation view: Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Peace Core (sphere), 2024, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann / Photo Andrea Rossetti

Installation view: Christopher Kulendran Thomas: Safe Zone, FACT, Liverpool, 2025 / Photo Andrea Rossetti

Christopher Kulendran Thomas

Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ major new body of work, Safe Zone – a collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, invites us to explore the political, economic, and cultural forces that underlie our everyday experiences. Paintings, sound, and video works created using artificial intelligence technologies draw connections between globally witnessed and overlooked events.

 

Bahar Noorizadeh, Free to Choose (2023). Installation view at FACT Liverpool (2025). Courtesy the artist. Photo Rob Battersby

Bahar Noorizadeh, Free to Choose (2023). Installation view at FACT Liverpool (2025). Courtesy the artist. Photo Rob Battersby

Bahar Noorizadeh, Free to Choose (2023). Installation view at FACT Liverpool (2025). Courtesy the artist. Photo Rob Battersby

Bahar Noorizadeh

Discover artist, theorist, and filmmaker Bahar Noorizadeh’s Free to Choose, an immersive film work that explores speculation, finance, the weird and the unknown. Described by Bahar as as a “financial science-fiction opera” Free to Choose, depicts a delirious and absurdist extreme vision of a financialised future through a story set in Hong Kong, spanning decades.

 

Bahar Noorizadeh, Free to Choose (2023). Installation view at FACT Liverpool (2025). Courtesy the artist. Photo Rob Battersby

Bahar Noorizadeh, Free to Choose (2023). Courtesy the artist

Bahar Noorizadeh, Free to Choose (2023). Installation view at FACT Liverpool (2025). Courtesy the artist. Photo Rob Battersby

Bahar Noorizadeh, Free to Choose, 2023. Photo Rob Battersby

“In light of recent political, social and economic upheavals, it feels urgent to reflect on how events of the recent past have shaped the world we live in today. How do we recognise the moments when the world changes, and what is the aftermath of such large-scale global events within different local contexts? The works of Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Bahar Noorizadeh bear witness to the interconnectedness of economic ideologies and political rhetoric, using new digital media technologies to reimagine the unseen stories of the specific impacts these systems of power have on people, places and times we ordinarily see as disparate.”

–Maitreyi Maheshwari, Head of Programme at FACT

 

FACT Liverpool: Christopher Kulendran Thomas & Bahar Noorizadeh
February 21 – May 11, 2025 / FACT Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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