On May 16th, Ghazaleh Moqanaki and Golnoosh Heshmati invite you to Blue Stories, an installation and listening session developed through dialogue and shared research.
Blue Stories traces how attention moves around ongoing conditions, beginning with the water crisis in Iran and shifting toward forms of knowledge that persist beyond cycles of visibility. Drawing on rain-calling rituals from different regions of Iran, the project engages with practices that bring together fieldwork, storytelling, and community building.
The installation and sound work are based on fieldwork conducted on Brienenoordeiland in Rotterdam, alongside archival material related to rain-calling rituals.
Visitors are invited to support grassroots initiatives working with communities in Iran affected by ongoing environmental challenges.
About the artists
Golnoosh’s practice proposes listening as a method for engaging with archives and site-specific research, approaching them as landscapes where histories, material processes, and forms of navigation emerge over time. By translating ephemeral traces and peripheral narratives into embodied encounters, she develops works across sound, text, and ceramics that integrate multichannel sonic works and sculptural forms.
Ghazale’s work can be translated through myths and stories. She is drawn to stories about monsters, the power of storytelling, and how myths and narratives relate to our physical experiences. She is inspired by objects of nostalgia and playing objects. Objects then become her puppets, her music and her thoughts. Her work often incorporates light, shadows, illusion, figurative sculptures, puppets, dolls, mechanisms, craft making, video and animation.
Blue Stories
Opening May 16, 2026
17:00-20:30
See Lab
Duinstraat 57, Scheveningen
Video: Ghazaleh Moqanaki @gazelle_moqanaki
Sound: Golnoosh Heshmati @golmati
With support from Stroom Den Haag and CBK Rotterdam.
