Once at Present: Contemporary Art of the Bay Area Iranian Diaspora (2019)
Anahita Hekmat
Green Home (video still), 2019
Video; total running time 8:00
Green Home was filmed in Hekmat’s childhood house in Tehran, where a green- house has been positioned as the architectural and organic nucleus of the home. The plants are seen and treated as guardians to life unfolding there. The narration in the video is constructed as an origin myth — one that positions the perennial plants in the home as containing memories of the place and possess- ing the ability to transmit these memories and stories to different generations over time.
Once at Present: Contemporary Art of the Bay Area Iranian Diaspora
March 29 - April 20, 2019
Minnesota Street Project
San Francisco, CA