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From another epic another history. From the missing narrative.
From the multitude of narratives. Missing. From the chronicles.
For another telling another recitation.
— Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee (1982)
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Amorphous black lines trace the contours of a landscape reacting to receding coastlines and shifts in the Gulf South.
By Maggie Bard
A video diptych tracks an artist's return to her childhood school in Iran and the emotional resonances of migration.
By Azin Seraj
Generative imagery imagines a queer pride march in Iran to counter prevailing stereotypes and cultivate hope for the future.
By Anonymous
Mixed media paintings depict Iranian women rising from ashes to reclaim their voices and femininity during widespread societal protests.
By Elma Hashemi
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Intricate digital patterns recreate the historic chest panels of depopulated Palestinian villages to preserve a tangible record of heritage.
By Tasnim Al wa’l
A watercolor and ink painting incorporates barbed wire turned into wheat grass as a symbol of Palestinian resistance and hope.
By Yara Ghabayen
Collage works examine the symbolic intersections of female archetypes, religious iconography, and the cultural policing of women's bodies.
By Sabrina Mansouri
Family home movies and childhood footage become a lens through which an artist examines the forced transition from personal to political.
By Pegah Pasalar
Physical elements including fire, wood, and sand distort photographic paper to reconcile the fragility of oral history with visual testimony.
By Prisca Munkeni Monnier
A daughter maps the displacement of her Iranian father through televised memories, fragmented letters, and the weight of inherited exile.
By Parisa Karami
Acrylic and aerosol paint on paper explore themes of community, belonging, and the integrity of human connections in the Caribbean.
By Kriston Banfield
Louise Bourgeois’s psychoanalytic writings.
By Louise Bourgeois
‘Fireworks are furious playthings: in Mexico, they are the second most common cause of accidents involving hazardous materials.’ Cian Oba Smith’s photography of the annual firework festival in Tultepec, Mexico, introduced by Julián Herbert, translated by Rosalind Harvey.
By Cian Oba-Smith, Julián Herbert
trans. Rosalind Harvey
‘Smiler’s catalogue of the lunar faces of his cohorts in the countercultural squatting nexus is pure romance.’
By Mark Cawson, Iain Sinclair
‘An Olympic medal is more than a sporting prize. In an argument, it can serve as the final word.’ Snigdha Poonam on wrestling and the photography of Prarthna Singh.
By Prarthna Singh, Snigdha Poonam
‘Many of these residents are unable to afford life in Shanghai and refer to themselves as “the living dead”.’ Leslie Shang Zhefeng photographs vacant apartments and the people who have made them their homes.
By Leslie Shang Zhefeng
‘At night her friends let loose and relax.’ Photography by Vera Yijun Zhou of house parties and clubs in Hangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing.
By Vera Yijun Zhou
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