Dear Salaam is a limited edition companion to Rokni’s work ‘Yousef Abad’, an exhibition and edition dedicated to the exploration of the relationship between memories, space and movement: I asked someone who visited Tehran to hold a camera while I was remotely directing her through my childhood neighborhood. This walk down memory lane allowed me to virtually visit Tehran and overcome the existing geopolitical borders. It also generated a new experience of the public sphere in which I stroll freely around my own ‘forbidden’ city based on my intuition, but at the same time felt restricted and disoriented due to my removed location and the subjectivity of memory. The edition includes the correspondence between Rokni and her surrogate.
