IRAN 2026: A Text for Jonathan’s Gathering

As part of the exhibition IRAN 2026: A Chronicle, presented at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the WARM Festival 2026, visitors encountered a text that became one of the exhibition’s central narrative threads.

Originally written for a private gathering in London and presented without attribution at the author’s request, the text offered a deeply personal reflection on the events unfolding in Iran during 2026. Within the exhibition, it stood alongside the photographs not to explain them, but as another voice from the same moment in history.

The text also inspired Bojan Hadžihalilović’s visual language for the exhibition. Rather than publishing it here as plain text, we are presenting it in the form designed by Bojan, preserving the relationship between words and design that became an integral part of IRAN 2026: A Chronicle.

We are now publishing it separately so it can be read on its own, beyond the exhibition space, while remaining part of the larger chronicle created through the project.