2017 Ongoing The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole undertakes a historical analysis of archival images produced by a working-class immigrant community in Tehran between 1956 and 1968, commenting on these artistic works and their exhibition and examining the relationships they reveal between class identity and the means of production. The images, captured by...
An allegorical bronze-and-cement sculpture stands at the intersection of Felestin (Palestine) Street, in the centre of a large roundabout. Depicting several figures, one with a fist raised in a gesture of defiance, the work is a monument to the Palestinian struggle, particularly the First Intifada. It lasted from December 1987 until the Madrid Conference in...
Together with Magnus Bärtås In On Hospitality – Layla Al Attar and Hotel Al-Raheed, the Iraqi artist Layla Al-Attar returns from the dead to tell the story of how a Swedish company built a luxurious hotel in Baghdad, ordered by Saddam Hussein for the 1983 summit of the Non-Alignment Movement. War changed the plans. Layla...
A Monument to the Invisible Citizen is a series of site-specific monuments that envision a playground as a potential future for social commemoration. This project originated in 2015, drawing on the artist's childhood memories and exploring how his personal narrative intersects with the broader political landscape and the concept of transnationalism. It delves into an...
The School of Imagination (SOI) emerged in 2022. This project is based on a shared commitment to non-hierarchical, transformative, and context-driven educational practices that are rooted in dialogue and thelived realities of learners. Central to SOI’s approach is the Indigenous Sindhi method of social engagement, Mach Kachehri, which is a participatory gathering where everybody shares...
Together withMagnus Bärtås In the 1950s and 1960s, The African and Asian leaders from the Non-Alignment Movement arrived on the Yugoslavian island Brioni with their cages in varying sizes and thus revived an almost 2500-year-old tradition. Already in the Achaemenid Empire, delegates from the remote provinces came with animal gifts to Darius the Great in...
Together with Benji Boyadgian This film explores the juxtaposition of four clocks, constructed between the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Iran and Palestine, as subjects of comparative analysis. As markers of time, these clocks bear the weight of colonial histories, technological impositions, and the politics of temporal regulation. They function as both material...
Together with René León-Rosales The project is based on interviews with young Swedish activists who have engaged in organisations dealing with the multiple expressions of racism and social injustice in Swedish society. Using an artistic research methodology, the project articulates a narrative strategy that aims to highlight the complexities in young people’s understanding of their...
In the battle of Khromashahr at the beginning of the war between Iran and Iraq in 1979, a Swedish film group produced a documentary about the ongoing war and border dispute between Iran and Iraq. In the documentary, in the minutes 18:12, the cat (possibly a wild cat) scapes the battlefield. It seems it was...
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