Artists Soufia Erfanian & Tirdad Hashemi live in an apartment unit of nine residents, in the Neukölln area, all of which are queer individuals. Their goal is to harmonise and build a collective lifestyle in a space that builds a creative queer utopia. They aim through this living to define a new view onto couple’s life.

Building on their their last series - the Pink series, in which the urban architecture of their homes lacked the colour pink and so became represented in an imaginary space, where collective life showed the positive the new show aims to show the other side. The new series, which is called Blue, is about the sadness of people. Blue isn’t a sign of a depressive state for the artists, but it is pretty distant from that state of Pink as well. It is closer to the everyday routine of half of the year, especially the winter in Berlin. In this series the principle figure in most of the paintings is Tirdad, and the things that are expected of him as a tomboy that is expected of a man in a heteronormative society as well. But maybe a tomboy does not favour tasks such as fixing lamps and vacuum machines: in collective life tasks like tending to the plants or decorating and beautifying the house are also part of identity play. In the end an emphasis on being male or female (being white or black) and some defining rules in society that limit the life of modern humans are explored from the documentation of illustrative shared queer co-living.