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Saba Pouyeshman: Rewriting the spell, from supperssion to imagination

 

Saba Pouyeshman: Rewriting the spell, from suppression to imagination

July 8, 2025

Written by Kate Ngan Wa Ao

Saba Pouyeshman, multidisciplinary artist from Iran (Photo: Kate Ngan Wa Ao / Safemuse)

Saba Pouyeshman was born in Karaj, Iran, in 1997 and grew up in a large family. She discovered her passion for acting at a young age, often dressing up and improvising for hours, creating characters. Acting has been a way for her both to connect with the world and to disconnect from it when it becomes overwhelming; it creates a unique safe space for her.

Saba studied Cinema and Screenwriting at university in Iran, but her passion for acting never faded. She eventually pursued a career in theater. After working as an actress for nearly a decade, her journey was challenged by the harsh realities of censorship and the suppression of creative freedom. While working in Iranian theater, she experienced firsthand how freedom of expression was often manipulated as a tool of propaganda. Performance content and dress codes were strictly controlled, making it increasingly difficult for Saba to continue her work.

— When I was working in the theatre in Iran, I was often asked and forced to change my clothing not based on my character’s story, but solely to comply with the Islamic Republic’s strict dress codes, covering my hair and any exposed skin. I was constantly in conflict with myself while performing; I felt like a liar. The more I acted, the more suffocated I felt. Saba says.

— I developed a deep anger toward the endless, senseless limitations placed on artistic freedom. These obstacles not only affect individuals, but they also shape narratives, enforce propaganda in art, and destroy valuable cultural expression. I stepped away from acting, overwhelmed by depression. Saba recalls.

For a couple of years, I felt disconnected from all art forms. Being an artist under censorship and suppression often felt hopeless. But thankfully, art is more powerful than any dictatorship; it is part of what makes us human and cannot be silenced so easily. Slowly, the spark within me was reignited through a new artistic practice.

— Saba Pouyeshamn

Saba as an actress back in Iran in 2018 (Photo: published with the artist's permission)

Where Art Could Begin Again

Saba and another multidisciplinary Iranian artist, Pouya Pour-Amin, participated in Safemuse’s Safe Haven artistic residency program in Hvitsten in the spring of 2024 together, organised in collaboration with local partner Hvitsten Salong. Later, they spent the second part of their residency in Oslo, in collaboration with Nordic Black Theatre.

In Tehran, where she lived in an apartment surrounded by some hostile neighbours who supported the regime, Saba was under constant threat and anxiety, and was close to losing the strength to be an artist. But after moving to Hvitsten, she found herself inspired by the landscape and nature, and since then, she has spent nearly every drawing and painting.

From Tehran to Hvitsten, from a small, tense apartment to a beautiful house in the woods, right beside the fjord. From hostile, watchful neighbours to the amazing, open-hearted, and warm community of Hvitsten. This shift made me want to be bold and free in my art again. I was finally able to relax and create, says Saba.

—  Saba Pouyeshman 

Saba’s drawings were exhibited at Hvitsten Salong in 2024. The residency coordinator at Safemuse and the director of Hvitsten Salong, Jon Lundell, welcomed her and Pouya to their local community. He recalls:

— Saba, who has a multidisciplinary background, worked in several different art forms at Hvitsten Art Haven. She has a prominent role as an actress in the making of the play Prison Episodes together with Pouya Pouramin, and she has also been exploring and working more comprehensively with drawings.

— Both Saba and Pouya were a delight to have in Hvitsten! It is not always easy to come into a new reality in a small community like this, but their personalities, presence, warmth, and genuine interest in other people made it a simple joy to work with and facilitate.

Exhibition view of Saba’s drawing at Hvitsten Salong 2024 (Photo: Cronje Strøm / Hvitsten Salong)

Reborn in Dark Mytholog

After a temporary farewell to acting, Saba became interested in the theoretical side of art, particularly art history. She studied The History of Modern Art and The History of Modern Sculpture independently, and researched motifs in Iranian fabrics and pottery, as well as modern painting in Iran. These studies of visual traditions and symbolism, especially those rooted in mythology, have become the main inspiration for her artistic work now.

During her artist residency in Norway, Saba developed a new way to connect her past and present, merging performance and visual art into a distinctive practice. She once again dressed up as characters, but this time used her body and gestures not only as expressive tools, but also for mark-making, storytelling, and reclaiming her voice through the whole process of image-making.

— For example, in Fairy Invoker, I draw from Iranian folklore about the Fairy Caller, who traps fairies for good or bad purposes, some to save the world, others to destroy it. I imagine myself as one of these trapped fairies, each carrying different emotions and stories: fleeing, struggling, angry, calm, or meditative. I set up my camera to capture my movements and gestures as those fairies. Later, I drew the characters I once created and performed, Saba says.

— This is where my artistic practice lives, connected with storytelling, memories, and folklore. I want to explore what lies between reality and the supernatural; the visible and the invisible; the spoken and the unspoken. My performances are based on imagination, ancestral ghosts, childhood fears, and playful spirits. For me, life is aligned with magic, talismans, jinns, demons, fairies… Saba says.

Saba Pouyeshman, Fairy Invoker, carved in a wooden box, 2025 (Photo: courtesy of the artist)
Saba Pouyeshman's sketches, 2025 (Photo: courtesy of the artist)

Myth, Wonder, and New Beginnings

Saba has many dreams to fulfill and continues to look forward. Now being in Norway, she is excited to learn more about Norse mythology, not just through books, but through the landscape, people, and living traditions. One of her artistic goals is to explore stories from the dark realms of mythology through different artistic media. She is deeply drawn to the mysterious, magical, and sometimes eerie elements of folklore and believes these stories hold powerful potential, not to frighten, but to inspire imagination, strength, and curiosity. Her goal is to create work that speaks to a raw and honest sense of wonder, inviting deeper questions and new ways of thinking.

— Mythological stories have the power to plant a seed of doubt, and I believe doubt is a beautiful and essential part of life. It’s often the first step toward thinking differently, asking deeper questions, and ultimately creating something new. Doubt opens the door to wonder, and through my art, I want to offer that door to others, says Saba.

Since July 2025, Saba has joined Safemuse as part of the Aspirant Scheme, a fellowship supported by Arts Council Norway. The programme will provide her with opportunities to gain experience in the arts and culture field, while also supporting her development as an artist. She will be working with Safemuse as well as other organisations and festivals, including Hvitsten Salong, Nordic Black Theatre, Empowering Voices, and JM Norway, with exciting possibilities for new collaborators to join along the way.

We are very much looking forward to continuing our collaboration with Saba and witnessing how she shares her magical spirit with the world.

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Pouya Pour-Amin: An artist’s journey from fear to freedom

 

Pouya Pour-Amin: An artist’s journey from fear to freedom

June 20, 2025

Written by Akari Izumi Kvamme

Pouya Pour-Amin is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Tehran and currently an artist-in-residence with Safemuse. (Photo: published with the artist's permission)

Pouya Pour-Amin is a multidisciplinary artist with over twenty years of experience in music, composition, sound design and performance. Born in Tehran in 1983 into a family that worked in the arts, Pouya grew up in a creative environment. His mother was a puppeteer and actress, his father was a cinematographer, and his grandfather was an instrumentalist who played the tar – a traditional Iranian string instrument. Pouya began learning music when he was five years old and by his late teens he was making his own music.

As a university student, he began to study computer science, music and theatre, but dropped out three times because he felt that the studies and academic system did not have much to offer him. He continued to study through self-learning and private teachers. Pouya played the guitar, but his love for the low frequencies led him to take up the double bass, which he coincidentally discovered while studying at the Tehran Conservatory. Later Pouya joined the contemporary chamber orchestra, The Camerada Orchestra, where he spent a decade of tremedous musical growth under the guidance the conductor Kayvan Mirhadi, who had also been his musical teacher. His very first works as a composer were performed by Mirhadi’s orchestra.

Looking back, Pouya’s grandfather, Akbar Jeddikar, and the conductor of the Camerada Orchestra, Kayvan Mirhadi, were his biggest inspirations growing up:

— They were both very special people to me, opened my eyes to the worlds of music and literature and became my window to the world beyond the strict religious Iranian society, he says.

— My grandfather first of all influenced me as a human being. He was not religious and did not believe in God, something which was very rare for his generation and in Iranian society in general. We had a very close relationship. He was open-minded and introduced me to politics and critical thought through his vast collection of literature. Kayvan Mirhadi, the conductor, was also my classical teacher, but did not have the dogma-point-of-view that most educators had. Instead he was wise and had an open view to the arts and to different kinds of music. He introduced me to Western contemporary music, which opened my eyes and made me realise that there was so much to explore and learn, Pouya recalls.

Pouya played the double bass for many years before beggining to explore new sounds and artistic disciplines. (Photo: published with the artist's permission)
“While living in Iran, I worked a lot in fear. I had to find secret ways, like put my phone in the microwave to avoid being tapped, and I lived under the constant fear of getting in trouble with the authorities.”

— Pouya Pour-Amin

The struggle for artistic freedom

Artists in Iran who refuse to stay silent in the face of the country’s authorities and current sociopolitical situation pay a high price for their expression. Over the last years, the Iranian government has taken on increasingly harsh measures to suppress artistic freedom of expression and exert control over artists through threats, censorship and persecution. 

Pouya laments the ongoing situation in his homecountry whereby artists, writers and journalists are frequently subjected to superveillance, interrogations, detention, imprisonment, torture, and even the death penalty to punish those who dare to question or criticise the system. Pouya has many friends and colleagues who have received death threats, been forced to flee the country and live in exile. He, too, has felt the heavy burden of being an artist without freedom of expression.

— While living in Iran, I worked a lot in fear. I had to find secret ways, like put my phone in the microwave, to avoid being tapped and I lived under the constant fear of getting in trouble with the authorities. Sometimes I chose not to put my name on my work to avoid getting in trouble. The thought that someone could call the door bell to detain me, plant evidence and present untrue allegations was constantly in the back of my mind, he says.

Pouya also worked with theatre, TV and cinema in Iran. (Photo: published with the artist's permission)

Pouya used to work with different people from various creative industries in Iran, but in his first act of conscious political reaction, he decided to stop working with TV and cinema because he felt like the cultural scene was corrupted and a channel for propagating the state’s lies. He began to work with theatre, but it became evident that this industry, too, was a corrupted sphere. In a culture where questioning and confronting was highly discouraged, Pouya  refused to be silenced and raised the question of why the industry did not pay its artists properly. After he took to the street and joined the marches during the Green Movement in 2010, Pouya was imprisoned twice. During the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in 2022, Pouya again took to the streets to partake in the demonstrations that were televised across the world, and felt the fear more than ever before.

— Artistic freedom for me is twenty years of struggling with propaganda, with censorship and a corrupted economy, he says. Even when you are independent, you are at risk if you want to raise questions about politics, the regime or religion, human rights. And it’s only getting worse and worse.

1st of May 2025: Pouya celebrates International Worker's Day for the very first time in by attending the annual parade in the streets of Oslo. - A long-awaited experience. (Photo: Akari Izumi Kvamme / Safemuse)
“To have artistic freedom now is a totally new feeling for me. I didn’t know how it would feel. When I look back at this short period I have worked in freedom, I can see that things have started changing in the ways that I think and create art.”

—  Pouya Pour-Amin

In 2019, Pouya released his second album, "Prisoners Episodes". He is currently working on a multidisciplinary performance about political prisoners' experiences and based on the music from. the album. The artwork for this album is by the prominent Iranian contemporary artist and grave marker Barbad Golshiri (Photo: published with the artist's permission)

From prison to Safe Haven and the rebirth of an artist

Since 2011, Pouya has expanded his work to include theatre, juggling the roles of musician, actor and director. His music has gradually transitioned into the more experimental and electronic realms. In May of 2024, he travelled to Norway to partake in Safemuse’s Safe Haven artistic residency program. The first part of his artistic residency was spent in the idyllic coastal town of Hvitsten, organised in collaborations with our local partner Hvitsten Salong. Thereafter, Pouya has spent the second part of his residency in Oslo, in collaboration with our partner Nordic Black Theatre.  

Through the Safe Haven program, Pouya has continued to evolve as a multidisciplinary artist and developing his creative practice through a blend of music, performance and theatre. Since arriving in Norway as an artist-in-residence, he has composed several works and performed at Ultimafestivalen – the largest contemporary music festival in the Nordic region, as well as Hvitsten Salong and at Caféteatret.

— When I arrived Norway and could breathe out after so many years of living in a state of exception and survival mode, I also realised that I was worn-out after having denied and neglected my own needs and wellbeing. I realised the constant fear I had been living under and how worn-out I was. Living in Hvitsten surrounded by beautiful nature, I was for the first time feeling everything I had not had the chance to feel prior to arriving Norway, especially related to my experience in prison and how hard it had actually been, Pouya says.

The residency coordinator in Safemuse Jon Lundell, is one of many that have worked with Pouya since his arrival to Norway and been impressed by his dedication, versatility and courage to explore new artistic directions:

Pouya have been exploring and digging deeper in composing new music for different scenes in Oslo and Hvitsten; commissioned work that has challenged him to seek new ways of composing and combining digital and analog instruments and sounds. He has also taken the work with his play Prison Episodes further and is developing it with different artists and partners.

In 2015, Pouya released his first album “Lullaby and Down the Quod” based on his own experience as a political prisoner. His second album, “Prison Episodes” (check out the Bandcamp link), which was released in 2019, was inspired by his study of other Iranian prisoners’ experiences. During his residency in Norway, Pouya’s main artistic ambition is to complete his project Prison Episodes which he has been developing over many years. Together with Safemuse, partners and other artists, Pouya is planning a multidisciplinary performance that combines music, dance, theatre and visual technology to tell the story of the tragedy of political prisoners and their subjection to torture, suffering, solicitations and death. On top of that, he has also begun to record a new album, which he hopes to release in 2026.

Pouya says he has learned a lot of things through the Safemuse residency, not just artistically, but about life and himself:

— I love my culture and I cannot cut that string, but now I am in a position to decide how I want to work with it and to tell my story. To have artistic freedom now is a totally new feeling for me. I didn’t know how it would feel. When I look back at this short period I have worked in freedom, I can see that things have started changing in the ways that I think and create art. When you no longer have barriers in your mind, you starts to think differently and your passions start changing. With no imposed limitations, I think my artistic language has already started to change. I feel like the blinds are gone. While I have been working on my newest album, I can see that I am going in new directions that I would never have imagined before.

Safemuse looks forward to continue the collaboration with Pouya and share more about his upcoming events and projects!

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In September 2024, Pouya was invited to perform at Trekanten in Oslo, during Ultimafestivalen, the largest contemporary music festival in the Nordic region. (Photo: Nabeeh Samaan / Ultimafestivalen)
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February 28, 2025

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Meningsfylt arbeid med spennende og varierte oppgaver i et internasjonalt miljø

Da vår kollega skal ut i permisjon søker vi en fleksibel, engasjert, selvgående medarbeider med gode samarbeidsevner i 100% stilling til et ettårig engasjement, med mulighet for forlengelse fra mai/juni 2025.

I våre faste residenser tar vi imot truede, forfulgte og sensurerte kunstnere og følger dem opp både faglig og personlig. Vi skal bidra til at kunstnerne i residensopphold får forutsigbare og gode arbeidsforhold, og får utviklet og presentert sin kunst. I tillegg har vi flere prosjekter knyttet til kunstnerisk ytringsfrihet. Programmedarbeideren skal bidra i våre ulike prosjekter og til utviklingen av residensprogrammet med visninger, samtaler, workshops, konserter og forestillinger for barn og unge og det generelle publikum. Enkelte kommunikasjons- og administrasjonsoppgaver vil også inngå i stillingen. Man må påberegne ansvar også for andre oppgaver etter behov.

Vi ønsker oss en kollega som kan utgjøre et positivt tilskudd til innsatsen vår for den kunstneriske ytringsfriheten. Vi er en liten administrasjon med et aktivt styre der det er stor plass for kreativitet og nye løsninger. Vår aktivitet omfatter trygge residenser for kunstnere, enkeltarrangementer, kunstneriske visninger, innspillinger og dokumentasjon, politisk påvirkningsarbeid, samt annet som kan bidra til å styrke den kunstneriske ytringsfriheten for enkeltkunstnere og i samfunnet for øvrig. Å sørge for finansiering til dette er en vesentlig del av vårt arbeid.

Personen vi søker har bakgrunn fra kunstfeltet og har et engasjement for ytringsfrihet, menneskerettigheter og internasjonale forhold. Vi vektlegger også internasjonal erfaring.

Det er viktig at vår nye medarbeider har en forståelse for fleksibiliteten som kreves når man driver residens og kan håndtere uventede situasjoner og endringer på en god måte. Personen vi ansetter må kunne arbeide godt i team og være lydhør og tillitsskapende i møtet med kunstnere fra svært ulike bakgrunner og forskjellige land. Fleksibilitet og forståelse i møte med kunstnere fra alle deler av verden og resten av teamet er essensielt.

Du bør ha solid formuleringsevne på norsk og engelsk, både muntlig og skriftlig.

 

Programmedarbeiders oppgaver inkluderer, men er ikke begrenset til

  • Bidra inn til residensene praktisk og kunstfaglig
  • Bidra til utvikling av vårt kunst- og samfunnsprogram gjennom workshops for kunstnere, samtaler, visninger og konserter rettet mot et bredere publikum.
  • Fasilitere produksjon av kunst i ulike former med våre samarbeidspartnere
  • Bidra til å skape, tilrettelegge og utvikle visninger og konserter i samarbeid med residenskunstneren, residenskoordinator og andre prosjektdeltakere
  • Rapportering, budsjett og søknader knyttet til ansvarsområdet
  • Knytte kunstneren opp mot faglig nettverk.
  • Administrasjon

Bakgrunn og kvalifikasjoner

  • Bred kunstfaglig bakgrunn, Kunstfaglig kompetanse og/eller erfaring gjennom feks eget kunstnerisk virke eller gjennom å kuratere, organisere eller produserer kunstfaglige eller kunstneriske prosjekter.
  • Stort nettverk i norsk kunst og kulturliv
  • Internasjonal erfaring er en fordel, har du bakgrunn fra, har bodd eller arbeidet i et annet land er det en fordel
  • Interesse for menneskerettigheter og kunstnerisk ytringsfrihet
  • Erfaring med arrangementsutvikling, workshops eller kuratering/kunstproduksjon/visninger/scenearbeid
  • Erfaring med søknadsskriving og ryddig og nøyaktig rapportering skriftlig og muntlig
  • Ha solid formuleringsevne på norsk og engelsk, både muntlig og skriftlig

Personlige egenskaper

  • Du har en god forståelse av fleksibilitet
  • God sosial, kulturell og kunstnerisk kompetanse
  • Selvgående, men også en lagspiller
  • Kreativ og lyttende med gjennomføringsevne
  • Evne til å skape positivt engasjement
  • Forståelse for kunstneriske prosesser

Personlig egnethet og teamets totale sammensetning vil bli vektlagt.

 

Vi tilbyr:

Stillingsstørrelse: 100%

Lønn etter avtale.

Fleksibel arbeidstid etter avtale.

En del reisevirksomhet samt arbeid kvelder og helger må påregnes.

Safemuse holder til i kontor i Oscarsgate i Oslo og driver også residens i Hvitsten i Vestby kommune.  

SØKNADSFRIST 16.mars

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Saba Pouyeshman: Rewriting the spell, from supperssion to imagination

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Pouya Pour-Amin: An artist’s journey from fear to freedom

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Safemuse søker programmedarbeider

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12 November, Album release of “Qaf” by Ghawgha @Nasjonal jazzscene, Oslo

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“Qaf” – New album release from Ghawgha

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“The Common Enemy” by Nikan Khosravi

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Altyn Kapalova – A fearless advocate for feminist & queer art

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21 September, “Dancing Into Fire” – Audiovisual performance @National Opera, Oslo

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