Let me circle/ rotate around you
دورت بگردم
Interactive Installation, audio, ceremony, June to July 2024Let me circle you/ rotate around you is a translation of the phrase دورت بگردم in Farsi, this saying is widely and generously used for communicating affection and feelings of adoration and love in daily life.
This Installation features two works, the installation of the hanging plants and a Magic reading table.
Her is made of Plants hanging from the ceiling in a circle.
She is made of invasive plants. To be looked at as invasive, as a migrant body, and as a body of resistance. To exist in the middle of this room, with its concrete walls and sharp metals, she exists as the portal, to look at her, build her, sit with her, she is the body of magical resistance, invasive, disruptive, and beautiful like the Witch.
Drawing on the contrast of the plants, the office room with its grey interior and awkward shape, and the ritual of its making, circling the installation, adding more weeds, taking care of each hanging plant, created a grounding, meditative experience where I was able to process and manifest the duality of the emotions involved within a love and hate relationship with my homeland specifically during the violent political climate.
(For her), is the audio that you can listen to while being with her.
Next to her is a table of Magic reading.
And together they hold the space of fostering magic. Nurturing and tending to our community, like a portal as I go back to it over and over again. To hold this space of vulnerability, Magical resistance, and movement, to talk over the cups and learn of each other's reality, and care for it collectively.
Photos from the Exhibition “ Hope this ( ) finds you well” at St. Joost Master Institute Den Bosch, NL, 2024
Photo credits to Iliana Michali, Alessia Talo’ and Tippi Chang