You have made more 15 animated films in Iran and three in Norway. Some years ago participating in Roshd film festival in Tehran I was delighted to reveal to the world Iranian animation. What about the Norwegian one?
While in Iran, I participated in the creation of many animated films, including “Amir Hamzeh,” “Atal Matal Tutuleh,” “Solidarity, One, Two, Three,” etc. In 1990 I co-animated two Norwegian cartoons and in 1994, I worked in Oslo for a feature animation film at the “Film Kamerater As” studio. Norwegian animations has some great films, like Flåklypa Grand Prix, Jakten på nyresteinen and Gurin med Reverompa, that I highly recommend to watch.
Creativity seems to be in your family. Your sister Hilda Nikgol has also participated in Iranian cinema as an artist and actress, and another relation, Armen Melkonian, is a layout artist of animation film in Canada.
To the names you in enumerated I will add the name of my cousins René Gabri, who is a political conceptual artist living in New York, Sirak Melkonian, who is also an artist, and Alek Melkonian, an opera singer. Actor Narbe Vartan from Iran is also my relative; he acted in the Armenian-Iranian joint production “Apricot Groves.”
And your sons also inherited talents from their parents.
My husband Mansour Eslami is an artist and an architect. My son Karen is a painter and performance director, and my oldest son, Armin, is an architect who lives in Copenhagen. My husband and I share an atelier with Karen in Oslo.
I am in touch with Karen – please tell us about his activities.
He studied at the Fine Arts Universities in London and Norway, and also studied religion and philosophy. Karen has participated in more than 25 group exhibitions around the world, and his solo exhibitions have opened in Spain, Denmark, Italy, Norway and the United States. Karen works at the Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art, observing Norwegian cultural life. Two years ago he staged Petrarch’s “Satyricon” by his own dramatization and design with contemporary interpretation. The performance received a lot of praise. He says he is mostly influenced by literature and films and among the Armenians he loves Sergey Paradjanov and Atom Egoyan. He is also one of the founders of the No Plays showroom, where he presents young Norwegian artists. Karen has organized various performances influenced by English rappers. And when the Norwegian royal family visits the Museum of Modern Art, he is entrusted to explain the exhibition. Karen’s last performance was “Ghetto Justice,” shown five times last September in Oslo.
You have been in Armenia once – do you have any new projects?
Yes I have plans to travel to Armenia again. I have an ambition to travel with my husband and son to Armenia to find the opportunity to exhibit our family artwork in an exhibition there. The exhibition can be painting, installation and performance…
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