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Mandy Merzaban
   ︎︎︎ about & contact 
    ︎services
 

︎  fundraiser
+ Palestine solidarity posters

︎  art projects
+ Fake Love & Institutional Longing (BTS)
    > Fake Love (audio episodes)
    > Institutional Longing: 1001 Nights
    > (깊은 가면) DEEP FAKE LOVE &
    피, 땀, 이론 (BLOOD SWEAT THEORY)
+ institutional poetics: a lexicon of counter-productivity
    > lecture performance
+ An Unknown Lover’s Discourse

    > waveform, drained words, floating ink
+ Law of the Sea
+ botanical research & illustration

︎ video & moving image
+ littoral intimacies I
+ littoral intimacies II
+ “inaccessible intimacy”

+ Delfina Foundation 

︎poetry
+ a heart gills
+ menu of poetic starters
 
︎ writing
+ Do Ho Suh’s Intimate Architectures of Transition
+ Shiraz Bayjoo on the Afterlives of Print
+ After the Flood: Letter from Athens
+ Programming the Sacred: The Contradictions of Ancestral Knowledges in the Museum
+ ‘Do Let Us, Destroy the Pyramid’
+ Opening Weekend of Richard Bell’s Embassy at Tate 
+ Walid Raad aka Suha Traboulsi: On feminist methodologies and the discourse of Modern Arab Art
+ Etel Adnan’s three questions for Paul Guiragossian

+ An ode to performing subjectivity
+ The Ribbon (excerpt)

︎workshops
(BTS) FAKE LOVE poetry
bad comms poetry
cyanotype

︎curating (selected) 
+ A Century in Flux I  
+ Beloved Bodies 
+ Re: Orient Investigating modernism in the Arab world 1950s - 1970s
+ Terms & Conditions (Singapore Art Museum)



Mark
/ a heart gills 




In July 2025, I published a pamphlet of poetry with Short Pieces that Move, a publishing project and reading/writing group based in Rotterdam, co-run by Kate Briggs, Annabelle Binnerts, Linus Bonduelle, Ash Kilmartin and Petter Dahlström Persson. It includes three poems (Palestine), My mother is pictured alone on her wedding day, and The Ghost Ship. 

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‘A heart gills contains dispatches from a life submerged by generational patterns and colonial violences, netted in unrequited love. Still, even at the end of the world, a body listens and adapts. It seeks some impossible way to breathe. New-limbed, strangely-organed, it sings as it changes, lamenting the loss of irreplaceable worlds.’

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You can order through Short Pieces That Move or email shortpiecesthatmove@gmail.com

Copies are € 5 + postage, 200 editions