Join curators Amirali Ghasemi and Maryam Kamal Hedayat for a guided exploration of the exhibition What the Land Remembers — Counter-Archives from Iran. Discover the works, stories, and contexts behind the art, and delve into the political and social realities they engage with. Through selected pieces, archival materials, and curatorial insights, they’ll reflect on how these artists confront censorship, displacement, and erasure, and how art can become a space for resistance and memory. The tour includes time for audience Q&A.

Amirali Ghasemi is a designer, curator and artist based between Tehran and Berlin. He graduated in 2004 with a BA in Graphic Design from Central Tehran Azad University, with a focus on research into digital art history. In 1998, he founded Parkingallery, an independent project space in Tehran, followed in 2002 by Parkingallery.com, an online platform dedicated to young Iranian artists.
His photographs, videos and design works have been presented at festivals and exhibitions internationally. Alongside his artistic practice, Ghasemi has developed an extensive curatorial practice connecting artists and independent cultural initiatives inside Iran with wider international contexts.

Maryam K. Hedayat (Esfahan, 1979) is a filmmaker, writer and researcher. Her work explores memory, migration, exile and the archive, with a particular interest in how political events reverberate through personal and diasporic histories. Her practice moves between documentary, fiction, video installation and artistic research.
Her short film The Magician, supported by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), is currently in distribution. She is developing her first feature-length documentary, Sarab.
In 2024, she founded Studio Sarab, a production and distribution platform for (eco)feminist and diasporic stories. The studio functions as an artistic hub where filmmakers and artists come together to develop new forms of storytelling and bring diverse perspectives to the audiovisual field.