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Tea Time with Baba
Medium: Performance for Video, Split-screen single channel video
Duration: 8 min. 37 sec.
Tea Time with Baba observes a quiet domestic exchange between an Iranian father and daughter over tea and fruit. The work attends less to narrative than to presence, questioning the conditions under which intimacy is held, sustained, or already in the process of disappearing. Through a split-screen, single-channel video, the piece considers impermanence as both material and relational: the fragility of shared rituals and the inevitability of their dissolution.
The absence of subtitles is intentional. Although the father speaks English, his accent resists immediate comprehension, requiring viewers to slow their pace and remain with the work. This focused attention mirrors the labor of care and listening within familial relationships, foregrounding what is often overlooked or passed over. The video lingers in gestures, pauses, and repetitions, inviting longing, tenderness, and loss to remain unresolved.