Sammaneh Pourshafighi: You, Me and Everything Around Us

‘You, Me and Everything Around Us’ is a collection of works that navigates the artist’s autobiographical and familial relationships, tracing the shifting boundaries between family, environment, memory, and self. Through diverse materials and approaches, the works move between entanglement and isolation, reflecting the fluid and often contradictory nature of connection.

Developed during periods of profound personal upheaval, this exhibition looks at ways in which we both shape and are shaped by our surroundings—physically, politically, and emotionally. The interplay between material and meaning mirrors the intricacies of all relationships: layered, unstable, and deeply responsive to time and place.

Image credit: Sammaneh Pourshafighi, You, Me and Everything Around Us (install view) 2025. Photography: James Henry