Hamoomi

The Hammam, much more than a place dedicated to hygiene, was once used daily by thousand of Iranian men and women to nourish, meet, exchange and share. Thought the memories of several friends and women in her family, Chirine attempts to reconstruct these places, drawing on the stories of each. Between architectural details, objects , rituals ,sharing and memories, Chirine interweaves cultural practices and history, proposing, in the context, an encounter with the myth of Anahita, the Zoroastrian goddess of wisdom, fertility, health ans water. In search of a message to link these spaces with history and current events in Iran, Chirine proposes to go back in time and weaves a new script between these different elements. Inspired by the myth of the goddess Anahita and the writings of the Franco-Iranian writer Leili Anvar, Chirine conjures up a (fictional) conversation between two young women evoking the current political and climatic issues facing Iran.