Guest Curator

Yalda Bidshahri is an Iranian writer and curator based in the United Arab Emirates. She creates communal spaces of imagination and freedom through exhibitions, programmes and texts developed in close collaboration with artists and practitioners across disciplines.

Featured Artist

Elham Rahmati is a visual artist and the co-founder/co-editor of NO NIIN Magazine. Based between Tehran and Helsinki, her practice engages with the politics of memory, recognizing it as constantly evolving and never fixed. Through revisiting memories that endure in stories, gestures, and family rituals, rather than in official preservation, she creates spaces for interpretation and reconstruction of the past. 

Featured artists

Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian are Iranian artists whose practices explore memory, displacement, and the emotional landscapes of exile. Through intimate, dreamlike paintings, they examine identity, care, and resilience, creating spaces where tenderness becomes a form of resistance and belonging is continually reimagined.

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Gisou Golshani is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist based in London working with experimental sound, performance, installation and video. Her practice explores rituals of belonging and resistance through vocalising and embodied movement, creating intimate environments that tune into the land and the more-than-human.

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Dorsa Asadi is a visual artist based in Tehran, working primarily across ceramics and installation. Her practice focuses on narrative installations inspired by the storytelling traditions found in Iranianceramics, tilework, and illustrated manuscripts.

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Sara Masinaei is a multidisciplinary artist working across installation, performance, photography, video, audio and mixed-media within a research-led practice. Her work explores themes of belonging, memory, identity, and the ways sociopolitical histories become embedded within landscapes, bodies, and everyday spaces.