Second Generation Collective – founded in 2020 by Iranian-Australian video artist Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson and Gujurati-Irish Australian performer, filmmaker and musician Asha Kiani – highlight the lived experiences of Iranian-Australians who fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution and those of their children raised on Noongar boodja.
Comprising a major new film and accompanying wall mural by Khashayar Salmanzadeh, the commission stems from an excerpt of The Seven Valleys – written in Persian by Baháʼu’lláh, founder of the Baháʼí Faith – and traces journeys of fleeing homelands, surrendering to the unknown, and reuniting with divine love.
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
17 October to 21 December 2025
Western Australia
Second Generation Collective, Vádyé Eshgh وادی عشق (Valley of Love), 2025
Courtesy the artists and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia
