Dates
| 22.06.2025 / 18:30 |
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Border Sharing Dinner is a poignant performance and installation piece that delves into themes of migration, borders, and communal identity. In this work, the simple act of sharing a meal becomes a powerful metaphor for the human cost of division. During the dinner, a physical line is drawn down the center of the table — a border that guests are not allowed to cross. They cannot pass food, speak to, or interact with the person sitting directly opposite them. What should be a space of connection becomes one of quiet separation.
By introducing this imposed boundary, Tajik transforms an everyday social ritual into a staged experience of exclusion and control. The piece mirrors how political borders disrupt lives and relationships, turning the familiar into something alien and uneasy. This silent but enforced restriction underscores the arbitrary yet deeply impactful nature of borders in both physical and emotional terms.
Border Sharing Dinner aligns with Tajik’s broader practice, which consistently challenges power structures and highlights the lived realities of migration. Through participatory installations and performances, he creates spaces that confront the viewer with uncomfortable truths, inviting empathy, dialogue, and reflection on belonging, movement, and the right to share space.
The dinner takes place outdoors.
Food is included in the ticket price.
https://imantajik.com/border-sharing-dinner
Iman Tajik
is an Iranian/Scottish multidisciplinary artist and photographer based in Glasgow,
Scotland. His work is anchored in a strong social interest and demonstrates an effort to make work that is a critical tool connected to international movements for social change. Tajik’s work addresses issues of contemporary conditions of life with a particular focus on migration and globalisation – thereby bridging the gap between art and activism, to create work as a form of socio-political currency, addressing power structures.
Tajik practice involves photography, moving images, sculpture, installations and performance. Through these various mediums, he ’performs the border’. This inspires by personal experiences of crossing geographical borders and socio-political barriers to insist on the right to freedom of movement. Tajik spotlights and stresses the need for resistance toward barriers and boundaries that are implemented socially and politically in favour of some but not all. A contribution towards bridging the divide between self and other is paramount to Tajik’s practice.
Iman Tajik is currently in a shared residence at MeetFactory.
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