Once upon a time, our grandmother Mamanjoon told us that our father was one of her daughters …
The history of patriarchy and capitalism go along with a regime of the sons: sons who are heirs and sons who must kill their fathers. What if we would leave them behind us, these sons with their notion of power through property, domination and individual success?
Would you like to enter the paradigm of the daughters? Where a daughter as mother nurtures all her daughters with what they actually need—regardless of expectations to be fulfilled. Where every daughter wants her human and more-than-human sisters to have what they actually need.
There, the daughters of all sexes, classes, races, religions, abilities, and ages are engaging with the emotional thinking of other daughters, mothers, friends, grandmothers and sisters in order to reimagine the coordinates of a more equitable era …
Curated by Nina Tabassomi.
Artists: Ramesch Daha, Vincent Entekhabi, Kim Hyesoon, Jumana Manna, Alex Martinis Roe, Naomi Rincón-Gallardo
Press release from TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol
Image: Ramesch Daha. Still from MONIRJOON’S DIARY. 2024. HD video, colour, sound, English/Farsi, and German/Farsi. 8:27 min. each. Commissioned by TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol for The Daughter’s Trilogy. Chapter I: Matriarchy. Image courtesy of the artist
