Onespace is delighted to present The Sacred Shared Labour, the second iteration of Prita Tina Yeganeh’s ongoing series My Soil Farsh فرش. This iteration explores collective labour as a vessel for activating community kinship. In a deeply symbolic and physical act of cultural embodiment, women from Prita’s community came together over 145 hours to hand-grind 45 kilograms of discarded soil from Magan-djin (Brisbane). Through practices of stillness and rhythmic, embodied motions, this act of shared labour transformed the physical task into ceremony. The labour of energy and bodies became an offering—a space for emotional release, knowledge exchange, and cultural remembrance.
The Sacred Shared Labour emerges from a process that reclaims labour from production and commodification, returning it to its roots as a tool for ceremony, healing, and reconnection with heritage, land, and one another.
Image: Prita Tina Yeganeh, My Soil Farsh فرش (detail), 45kg red loamy soil (hand-ground and sieved through silk), native lemon grass 260 x 360 cm Image: Thomas Oliver.
