{"id":28732,"date":"2026-08-20T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/?p=28732"},"modified":"2026-11-06T14:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:25:02","slug":"as-long-as-there-is-sound-exhibition-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/?p=28732","title":{"rendered":"As Long as There Is Sound | Exhibition-Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- AG-NAV-START --><style>.ag-nav{position:sticky;top:0;z-index:50;display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;justify-content:center;gap:6px 22px;padding:14px 16px;background:#fbfaf8;border-bottom:1px solid #e2ded8;font:12px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;box-sizing:border-box}.ag-nav a{color:#14110f;text-decoration:none;padding:6px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid transparent}.ag-nav a:hover,.ag-nav a:focus{border-bottom-color:#14110f}.ag-nav .ag-nav-soc{color:#6d6760}.ag-nav 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.ag-dm{display:flex}.ag-fol .ag-dm a:first-child{display:block}}<\/style><nav class=\"ag-nav\" aria-label=\"Main navigation\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/\">Home<\/a><span class=\"ag-dd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/?page_id=36955\">Exhibitions<\/a><span class=\"ag-dm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/?page_id=36955\">All exhibitions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/?page_id=13622\">Archive<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/?page_id=36957\">Art fairs<\/a><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/?page_id=36758\">Artists<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/?page_id=13478\">About<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/?page_id=13476\">Contact<\/a><span class=\"ag-nav-sep\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><span class=\"ag-dd ag-fol\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"ag-fl\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" onclick=\"this.parentNode.classList.toggle('ag-open')\">Follow<\/button><span class=\"ag-dm\"><a class=\"ag-nav-soc\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/alihagallery\" 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class=\"wp-image-28740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/As-Long-as-There-Is-Sound-Poster.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/As-Long-as-There-Is-Sound-Poster-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/As-Long-as-There-Is-Sound-Poster-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/As-Long-as-There-Is-Sound-Poster-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aliha Gallery presented \u201cAs Long as There Is Sound\u201d, an exhibition-performance curated by Kasra Aliha, offering a continuum of visual arts, music and installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Artists:<\/strong> Mani Gholami, Farimah Haghirian, Fatemeh Pourkasra, Nasim Zolfaghar, Hamed Malek &amp; Faraz Razavi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Opening and live music:<\/strong> Friday, August 21, 2026, 16:00 \u2013 20:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Exhibition:<\/strong> August 21 \u2013 September 11, 2026, 16:00 \u2013 20:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gallery is closed on Saturdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Acts within the exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Whisper of the Arches<\/strong> \u2014 an interactive installation designed by Fati Pourkasra with music by Hamed Malek, Friday 28 August 2026, in two sessions at 17:30 and 19:00. The work is not complete without the visitor: it turns the distance between two people into a living space that receives a whisper, transforms it, and returns it as music. As the work is interactive, punctual arrival was required. Part of \u201cAs Long as There Is Sound\u201d at the first Tehran Art Month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Line That Became Sound<\/strong> \u2014 a guitar and synthesizer improvisation by Mani Gholami and Faraz Razavi, Friday 4 September 2026, in two sessions at 17:30 and 19:00. Mani Gholami appears twice in this exhibition: once in colour, once in sound; the third act is where the two meet. What is heard is improvised \u2014 the colour stays on the wall, the sound does not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Installation views<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/as-long-as-there-is-sound-installation-view-01.jpg\" alt=\"Installation view of &#8220;As Long as There Is Sound&#8221; at Aliha Gallery: two curved fabric panels forming an arch-shaped passage, with an arch-form painting on the wall behind and a loudspeaker at either side.\" class=\"wp-image-36591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/as-long-as-there-is-sound-installation-view-01.jpg 756w, https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/as-long-as-there-is-sound-installation-view-01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/as-long-as-there-is-sound-installation-view-01-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1328\" height=\"894\" src=\"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/as-long-as-there-is-sound-installation-view-02.jpg\" alt=\"Installation view of &#8220;As Long as There Is Sound&#8221; at Aliha Gallery: a six-panel abstract painting hung in two rows of three on the gallery wall.\" class=\"wp-image-36592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/as-long-as-there-is-sound-installation-view-02.jpg 1328w, https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/as-long-as-there-is-sound-installation-view-02-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/as-long-as-there-is-sound-installation-view-02-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/as-long-as-there-is-sound-installation-view-02-768x517.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1328px) 100vw, 1328px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Aliha Gallery, No. 31, 1st floor, Ahmadi Moghadam (Izad), Ramezanian Alley, Mahrouzadeh Alley, Shariati Street, before Qods Square, Tehran \u00b7 Tel. 22717360<\/p>\n\n<!-- AG-POSTCHROME-START --><style>body.postid-28732 .header-top-panel,body.postid-28732 #footer,body.postid-28732 .lang-sel{display:none!important}<\/style><!-- AG-POSTCHROME-END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliha Gallery presented \u201cAs Long as There Is Sound\u201d, an exhibition-performance curated by Kasra Aliha, offering a continuum of visual arts, music and installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28732"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37370,"href":"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28732\/revisions\/37370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliha.gallery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}