Between Our Fingers
On January 16th from 18:00-20:30, Ghazale Moqanaki and Marieke Peeters present the launch of ‘Between Our Fingers’, a publication exploring the conceptual framework of the doll’s house at SeeLab.
The publication features contributions from artists Lore Pilzecker, Sohrab Kashani, Kiara Amartya, Ghazale Moqanaki, and Marieke Peeters who each approach the miniature from a different perspective. Bringing together essays, poetry, and visual artworks that interrogate the miniature as a site for reflection on domesticity, precarity, fantasy, and agency.
Historically, the doll’s house used to represent a particular cultural and social model of domestic life and reinforced that. Today, the doll’s house can be anything and it reveals desires, anxieties, and imagined realities that are otherwise difficult to articulate. This book examines the doll’s house as a symbol of control and desire, as well as a space of imaginative freedom in response to the increasingly inaccessible reality of housing as a right.
The book launch at SeeLab includes a performance program alongside video installations by contributors of the publication. The evening presents readings from the publication, a music performance by Ghazal Faghihi, and miniature food. Together, the publication and accompanying program present the doll’s house as a tool for imagination, critical reflection, and creative experimentation inviting visitors to reconsider the small worlds that reflect our own.
Photos by Meshkat Talebi
Poster by Mahtab Zamanifar
Illustration of the poster by Ghazale Moqanaki
Food installation by Marieke Peeters and Ghazale Moqanaki
Animation by Ghazale Moqanaki