My Dear, One Day the World Will Bloom into a Garden
Beginning on the summer solstice, My Dear, One Day the World Will Bloom into a Garden marks ROSVÂ's inaugural Summer Residency curated by Yalda Bidshahri.
Taking its title from a line in Ahmadreza Nabizadeh's song, the residency explores the garden as both metaphor and method: a space where life persists despite the conditions that seek to suppress it. Through newly commissioned works, writing, dialogue, and shared research, the programme considers how we cultivate hope, intimacy, and collective care in times shaped by displacement, violence, and uncertainty.
Over the course of eight weeks, artists from inside Iran and across the diaspora respond to a shared curatorial framework. Each contribution builds upon the last, allowing the residency to unfold as an evolving conversation rather than a series of discrete works. Commissions, essays, conversations, and archival materials come together to form a living editorial archive.
The garden is not a symbol of innocence, but of endurance. It speaks to the patient labour of tending, the persistence of renewal, and the belief that life continues to emerge, even under the most difficult conditions.
The residency begins with an original curatorial essay by guest curator Yalda Bidshahri, whose writing establishes the conceptual framework for the programme.
"The earth follows its own rhythms regardless of the systems that seek to dominate it. Even under conditions of occupation, violence, patriarchy, and colonialism, seeds continue to germinate, flowers bloom, and communities find ways to come together, care for one another, and imagine otherwise."