Public programme: We Are Keeping Each Other Close

Join us on January 15th to celebrate the start of a new year during a special evening hosted by the artist Neda Mirhosseini.

We warmly invite you for “Ash-e-reshteh”, an iconic Persian dish famously eaten in the cold season and served during good bye gatherings. Ash-e-reshteh is a wholesome, vegetarian soup, made from various greens, beans, wheat flour noodles. The dish is prepared over many hours, often times cooked collectively with friends and family. Served also as a street food on local markets–every city has their own take on the recipe, with a variety of twists–Ash-e-reshteh is well known inter-generationally and is strongly connected to the practice of coming together.

As an extension of the current show “We are Keeping Each Other Close”, Mirhosseini will prepare Ash and open a selection of the homemade jars of pickles and alcohol exhibited in the show. These have all been carefully made with loved ones in mind and have slowly been undergoing a process of fermentation that has changed them throughout the exhibition.

About We Are Keeping Each Other Close

What does it mean to care for each other from afar? The four artists in this group show learned how friendship works by sitting around a table, drinking, sharing meals together, dancing, and arguing. Over the past four years, for different reasons, the four of them left Iran. And with this change, they lost the form of connection that they used to have. Since the friendship relied on sharing spaces, they’ve tried to invent other ways of togetherness:

“In these years, we have remained present in each other’s works. Even if our art was not explicitly about friendship, this bond has shaped who we are and how we create. With this project, we continue that friendship through art, but this time, intentionally.”