Setareh Hosseini
Visual Artist
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This year’s Hygge Property Award is presented to Setareh Hosseini, who received a high commendation overall for her outstanding contribution to the program, Emigrabilia, presented at Roy Hammond. The panel of judges praised the exhibition, “The artist weaves fragments of migration, longing, and cultural inheritance into a visual tapestry. It’s an evocative meditation on displacement and belonging, where everyday objects become vessels of emotion, history, and the quiet resilience of lived experience. The installation sits in a busy, dimly lit bar yet makes an impression on the onlooker, gently nudging them to drift off and contemplate.”
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Setareh Hosseini is the recipient of the Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award 2024
https://www.merri-bek.vic.gov.au/exploring-merri-bek/events/whats-on/merri-bek-summer-belonging/#:~:text=This%20prize%20is%20generously%20sponsored,Noel%20Counihan%20Commemorative%20Art%20Award.
The award celebrates an artist whose work explores the exhibition theme (Be) Longing and engages with social, political, or environmental ideas.
The judges noted that Setareh’s work spoke to this year’s theme of (Be) Longing poetically and delicately through ideas of displacement and memory embedded in objects.
Setareh Hosseini. Emigrabilia, 2024, photograph, 70 × 50 cm.
Rosewater sprinkler 1 
Primus stove 
Rosewater sprinkler 2
Pitcher 
Spinning wheel 
Lamp
Shadow of bubbles 
Shadow of bubbles 
Shadow of bubbles