In Portal: The Seeping Sun, by Nour Helou and Afrang Nordlöf Malekian.

November 18 – December 18: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 12-18, Saturday 12-16.

A beardless, moon-faced figure with silky skin, almond-shaped eyes, and crescent eyebrows swapped for a music dealer at the Islamic Revolution Square in Tehran. A french-speaking school kid turned into a singer dressed in a purple costume from a tourist shop in Byblos. A non-gendered desire marginalized by a binary performance. In the exhibition, The Seeping Sun, Nour Helou and Afrang Nordlöf Malekian present three short stories on how colonial ideals and anticolonial frameworks manifest in everyday life in South-West Asia and North Africa. These stories are accompanied by a rare assemblage of reproductions of vinyl and cassette covers from the 1950s-90s, from Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon. They depict performers such as Googoosh, Onik, Oum Kalthoum, and Sabah.

Graphic design by Agga Stage.