Yegane Mehrzad is an artist and designer born in Iran and currently based in the Netherlands.
Situated in the fluctuating and shifting currents of the world, her practice explores her position within the socio-political and geopolitical issues. Guided by feminist, care, and resistance discourses, she draws inspiration from the curiosity of old and new knowledge and the playful wisdom of myths and nature, making her practice a vessel of reimaging the world.
Her practice is shaped around participation and involvement, and is moved by her cultural heritage. She examines the contradictions in various levels of personal and political, seeking to show the delicacy and complexities of existing in this world, and aims at nurturing a more caring and vibrant society built on understanding, empathy, and joy.
The practice of “Magic reading,” inspired by fortune-telling traditions, holds spaces for
collective readings. This is a participatory experience of drinking loose-leaf tea and reading
the shapes of the Tea leaves in the cups. Traditionally, in Tea reading, or other methods of
fortune telling, there is a fortune teller and a receiver. But, in Magic Reading, it is the
participants who read their cups with my guidance, thus read their fate, taking the agency
for their fate and transformation, and practicing autonomy of their narrative. As we read our
cups together, we listen to each other’s realities, practicing moments of care and resilience,
inspiring hope, empathy, and passion for ourselves and one another.
Saturday 15 november:
Exhibition open 12:00 – 17:00
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14:00: Yegane Mehrzad (Tea reading in the library)
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15:30 Performance: Biyi Zhu/BITSRAY (Ritual with food – Project space)
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View the entire Vide Cultura: through rot and renewal schedule from November here