Artist
Nooshin Hakim
Nooshin Hakim Javadi works at the intersection of sculpture, installation, and performance. As an Iranian now living in the United States, her practice investigates the material culture of conflict, displacement, and transition, considering how these experiences are internalized by the body. In 2017 she received the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center while completing her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. Her interdisciplinary works and performances have been shown in the United States, Germany, and Iran, including the Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg), Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, NJ), the Walker Art Center, and the Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis). She is the recipient of Franconia Sculpture Park and emerging-artist Jerome Fellowships and was a Target Studio for Creative Collaboration Fellow at the Weisman Art Museum.
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100 Lullabies by Nooshin Hakim is a poignant project born from the artist's desire to send comfort across borders. Hakim collected 100 lullabies from diverse cultures and communities around the world, then converted each one into a music box script — a physical, mechanical encoding of melody. These music box scripts were designed to be sent to children living in war-torn areas of the Middle East, offering a tangible form of solace that requires no electricity, no internet, no infrastructure — just the simple turning of a handle. The project is a meditation on the power of analog technology to carry human warmth across distances that politics and conflict have made impassable.