The production centre at PAVED Arts is proud to support the artistic projects of our members through our annual Members Micro Grant. Producing members in good standing can submit their project to receive up to $750 cash and $750 production centre credit.
For the 2026 micro grant, our jury awarded the micro grant to Soheila Fallah. With this grant, Fallah will use our production centre and grant funding to complete her project Hypnopompic Fragments.
Hypnopompic Fragments is a multimedia installation exploring memory, displacement, and the persistence of lived space. The work consists of fragmented architectural forms that resemble familiar environments without fully functioning as them. Stairways that lead nowhere, doorways that open onto absence, and tower-like structures appear as parallel architectures—spaces that feel recognizable yet remain unusable.
The project extends the conceptual trajectory of her MFA exhibition Hypnopompia, which examined the liminal state between waking and dreaming. Architectural fragments operate as vessels for memory, occupying an in-between state where space is simultaneously present and absent, real and imagined.
Drawing from traditional Iranian architectural motifs such as arched windows, doorways, and wind towers, these forms are recontextualized into non-habitable structures. Rather than reconstructing specific locations, the work focuses on emotional residue—how spaces we have lived in persist internally after physical departure.
