DREAMING IN FARSI
Yasamin Khadembashi
Dreaming in Farsi — Solo Exhibition by Yasamin Khadembashi
Opening Night: Thursday 16 January, 6:30–9:30pm
Dreaming in Farsi is a body of work by Perth-based Australian–Iranian artist Yasamin Khadembashi that reflects on lived experience, inherited memory, and the enduring impact of displacement. Emerging in the wake of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, the exhibition engages with Iranian women’s resistance, queer embodiment, and the ways migration, surveillance, and cultural erasure shape identity across generations.
Working across painting and mixed media, Khadembashi embraces contradiction — holding the queer, the feminine, the grotesque, the beautiful, the vulnerable, and the bold without resolution. Forced migration is considered not as an abstract condition, but as something deeply bodily: a wound that never fully heals, yet demands care, attention, and continuation. Farsi appears throughout the works not only as language, but as texture, gesture, and form — a site of longing, resistance, and survival.
Created during the artist’s Studio 7 residency at PS Art Space, Dreaming in Farsi exists between memory and imagination, inviting viewers to witness rather than consume, and to sit with what is unresolved, untranslatable, and unfinished.
The opening night will be held in the spirit of a mehmooni — a warm, communal gathering centred on connection and shared experience. Guests are invited to enjoy drinks, refreshments, and live music while moving through the exhibition.
The evening will begin with a Welcome to Country by Aunty Liz Hayden, acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we gather and paying respect to their continuing cultural presence.
Exhibition will run from Saturday 17 January to Friday 30 January open Tue-Sun 10-4pm
Opening Night: Thursday 16 January, 6:30–9:30pm
Dreaming in Farsi is a body of work by Perth-based Australian–Iranian artist Yasamin Khadembashi that reflects on lived experience, inherited memory, and the enduring impact of displacement. Emerging in the wake of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, the exhibition engages with Iranian women’s resistance, queer embodiment, and the ways migration, surveillance, and cultural erasure shape identity across generations.
Working across painting and mixed media, Khadembashi embraces contradiction — holding the queer, the feminine, the grotesque, the beautiful, the vulnerable, and the bold without resolution. Forced migration is considered not as an abstract condition, but as something deeply bodily: a wound that never fully heals, yet demands care, attention, and continuation. Farsi appears throughout the works not only as language, but as texture, gesture, and form — a site of longing, resistance, and survival.
Created during the artist’s Studio 7 residency at PS Art Space, Dreaming in Farsi exists between memory and imagination, inviting viewers to witness rather than consume, and to sit with what is unresolved, untranslatable, and unfinished.
The opening night will be held in the spirit of a mehmooni — a warm, communal gathering centred on connection and shared experience. Guests are invited to enjoy drinks, refreshments, and live music while moving through the exhibition.
The evening will begin with a Welcome to Country by Aunty Liz Hayden, acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we gather and paying respect to their continuing cultural presence.
Exhibition will run from Saturday 17 January to Friday 30 January open Tue-Sun 10-4pm