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Kani Lent is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and researcher based in Berlin. They are currently studying at the University of Arts Berlin in the class of Prof. Dr. Hito
Steyerl.

Through the use of various media and archival practices they assemble time-based fragment-installations which engage with the virtual, (westasian) refiguration and mythmaking, contemporary media culture, cybernetics and form. 

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recent selected shows, writing and residencies:

// Silver Lining at Halbhaus, Berlin, curated by Kunzten
// Afterlives of the empire- Encounters between art and academia residency and exhibition-
developed by Prof. Gesa Stedman and exhibited at Lichhof Ost Gallery, Humbolduniversity, Berlin

// ReKin at Photo Schweiz, Zürich 

// 1,2, on Joyfully waiting- online platform for soundart

// Hyperstition
group show at Museum for photograpy, Berlin, curated by Marlena von Wedel 
// Let’s See What We Find, group show at Museum für Fotografie, Berlin curated by Sebastian Peter

// Artificial Follies, group show at Transmediale / CTM Vorspiel, Silent Green, Berlin 

// A thousand withins, sound piece, Refuge Radio, Berlin 
// writing in Para-Educational Papers

// Four Walls of My Room, group show at Acud, Berlin
// save changes at Studio Hannibal, screening & performance, Berlin
// Lensbased variety show and tell at Temporary Home @ Documenta 15, screening, Kassel 

// Queer Formats at Xanadu, screening, Berlin
// LORE at Gelegenheiten, group show, Berlin

 
Kani Lent  

Kani Lent is an artist, musician, and researcher based in Berlin. They are currently studying at the University of Arts Berlin in the class of Prof. Dr. Hito Steyerl.

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Palimpsetic Feverdream Ontology
2024
Photoseries, photographed in Tehran 2019, digitally edited  2023/24 in Europe, 4.752 × 3.168

The process of revisiting and reviewing these photographs which  were connected to another structural context and altering them over  the years adding layers through changing reflections and feelings,  distance growing has shaped the evolution and stitching of these  images.  A translucent overwriting that spins a web of overlapping contexts by addition, retraction, blurring, exchanging and other  transformatory tools. Loosing traces of memory through time filling  the gaps by feverdreamlike traces. A visual palimpsest.

4Walls

 
Watch here 

Video- and Soundwork, 3D Animation in Unreal Engine;
03:38 min, single channel, 2023



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01/2023
Installationview at Silent Green- exhbition at CTM Vorspiel 
NDA

soundinstallation;
duration of sound 02:15,
wood fiber boards,
metal hinges, photography and found images,
stamped words with black ink

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Something lacking that conjures,
it’s own absence through traces left behind, withholdment erected from the margins of dispositional structure withdrawing from feedback loops,
and in turn, perhaps paradoxically,
make them explicit,
crucially, it is not noise,
that replaces the signal, but silence.

Traces of intersubjectivity,
only in part physically present,
materializing what was done,
and what has not happened,
prompting the tartini note,
an auditory illusion of a lower note,
that can be heard,
when the only sounds present,
are high notes.
2023
Installationview at Museum for photography Berlin, 
Seen By #19: Hyperstition – exhibition curated by Marlena von Wedel 

Lament II

two channel video, stereo sound, 03:54min, animation
12/2022

Installation view at Museum for photography, exhibition- Let’s see what we can find
curated by Sebastian Peter

Installation view at Museum für Fotografie Berlin
A Thousand Withins of Etiolated Tendrils
single channel video, 3:31 min, 

on transmogrification, labyrinths as
westasian detailed observation and metal as practice and thought.
03/2022

installation view at Acud Gallery

installation view at Acud Gallery Berlin


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