‘Friendship is the medicine for the isolation we often feel within supremacist societies’
Kate Johnson from “Radical Friendship” 

Whispered Dreams began as a series of letters and texts exchanged between Mona (a writer and actress based in Tehran) and Fariborz. They are close friends and members of the same collective that has been active in Tehran since 2011. Starting from these texts, they are revisiting their connection, friendship, and artistic collaboration, considering lived experiences—Fariborz' in Amsterdam and hers in Tehran. Due to the distance, their collaboration takes place remotely, which presents certain challenges in their creative process and performative setups. This distance is integral to the concept of the work, posing challenges, particularly in relation to audience role.

‘Friendship’ is the central theme they explore in Whispered Dreams where Fariborz questions different aspects of friendship, self-censorship, distance, absence and presence as concepts and examines how to translate it into a physical space while engaging audience members.