A new iteration of Shirin Fahimi’s Umm al Raml’s Sand Narratives (2021–) opens at articule in Montreal. In this version, the Iranian artist conjures a “future of female prophecy” in VR by foregrounding two of her central motifs: the desert and divination. “I like to think about the connection of sand to technology, from the journey of silica sands to silicon used in computer chips,” she reveals to Akimbo (image: Sand and Silicon Studies, 2022).