Lilian Nejatpour
The Very Best of Internal Migration (2020)

![Text reading: “Let’s finish our unfolding” / Spread and eject / The viscous attitudes of the right / [[Ejaculating oil]] / . .. “I placed tissues in your pockets to give you bigger hips” / “You’re part of the night now” / [Holding onto someone’s sleeve] / Feeling undecided and ancient / I craved my own loneliness / A rigid-intimacy / Faithfully cruel / Like static wine / A black carpeted spirit / Fused with poetry / Hair like debris / “You can communicate with dead people through radios on the Bakerloo line” / L E A R N T O R E M I X T H E L O S S O F L I F E / A frequency of trans(itions)missions-------. On the right, a dark classical painting of a pregnant woman in a bright red-and-black striped dress in a dark ornate room. Red and black text digitally imposed on top reads 'R E V E N G E B A R O Q U E'](https://hoaxpublication.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Lilian-Nejatpour-The-Very-Best-of-Internal-Migration-2022-2.png)

![Text reading: [The third intellectual Enters a cashmere room] Poets in exile Broken people with broken people Holding a handbag of sentences The heavy water weight of words Punctured in the linear “I ripped the seat off the car and thought about exhibiting some paintings on the parcel shelf” Bathed by her voice And blonde veins I followed the 20 laps that echoed 3 hairs and some air In the bosom of my belly I inherited visions Of corp objects I was desperate to drop off them off in Courted essays (Viewed for an about an hour)](https://hoaxpublication.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Lilian-Nejatpour-The-Very-Best-of-Internal-Migration-2022-4.png)




About this work
Combining Lilian Nejatpour’s lucid dream practice with aphorisms and autofiction, the image-text interacts with paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries, which informs new dialogues with European painting and the museum space. With themes relating to temporality, estrangement and reproduction, the text addresses the labours that are involved in artistic production, gestation and dreams.