Amy Rose Khoshbin

Transmitter is pleased to present Anahita, a solo exhibition and participatory installation by Iranian-American artist Amy Rose Khoshbin, curated by Lila Nazemian.

Drawing from Anahita, the ancient Persian goddess associated with water, healing, fertility, and wisdom, Khoshbin transforms the gallery into a contemporary sanctuary where grief, play, ritual, and collective release become intertwined.

Rooted in a fragmented cultural inheritance, Anahita draws from Persian and Zoroastrian mythology alongside Khoshbin’s own experiences of queer embodiment, illness, and mourning. Taking shape amid the protracted war with Iran, the exhibition turns toward ritual and material culture as living forms of knowledge, asking what inherited and invented practices might offer in a present shaped by displacement, violence, ecological collapse, and loss.

Through collage, sculpture, textiles, performance, and participatory ritual, Khoshbin brings inherited histories into contact with contemporary bodies and imagined futures. At the center of the exhibition, Anahita’s Grief Tent creates a space for gathering, play, divination, and catharsis. Drawing from ceremonial architecture and the form of a parachute gown, the structure shifts between sculpture, sanctuary, garment, and performance space.

Collages, ritual objects, an altar and a fountain extend the visual language of the exhibition. Water moves throughout the work as both material and metaphor: a force capable of carrying memory and transformation. A fountain created in collaboration with Khoshbin’s mother, Norma Khoshbin, brings water physically and sonically into the space. Khoshbin’s CYST-Ms, soft silicone forms that hold personal and collective grief, introduce a bodily language of holding and release. Throughout the exhibition, collage, divination, and collective making become tools for navigating uncertainty and transmutation. Rather than presenting ritual as fixed or historical, Anahita treats it as something that can be inherited, altered, invented, and practiced collectively.