TITLE
YEAR
LOCATION
MEDIUM
TYPE
Women of the Sun
2023 - 2025
Brisbane, Australia
Sand, Light, Projection
Performance, Installation
Women of the Sun
Work in Progress : 2023 - 2025
Installation View. Jaka Adamic, 2023
STAGE
Concept development, experimentation
CONCEPT
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How cultural identity is formed when displaced peoples are physically disconnected to cultural landscapes
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How Iranian identity is weaved into desert places between the Eurasian Mountain belt of the Alps to the arid belt of the old world in the Sahara, drawing on family narratives and hidden historic connections to land and place.
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Four significant desert landscapes interweaving the cultural birth stories of four matriarchs in my family
INSTALLATION
Elements:
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Sound - audio recorded conversation with my mother for the last 4 years - softly echoing in the background, sharing fragments of birth stories
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Projection - moving sand-scapes, traditional Abri patterns, sand boxes or free sand forms
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Performance piece - artist interplay with story, sand and projection