If My Land Were Flat, None of This Would Have Happened

The history of political protests in Iran is a cycle of hope and despair. Each following the other along a troubled timeline that never settles. It forms a landscape like a mountain range. We fall, we rise, and fall again, and even if we leave the country, the mountains follow us as a shadow behind our lives.

If My Land Were Flat, None of This Would Have Happened is a walk through these mountains. The wall installation and performance together portray fragments of that uneven terrain of resistance through my personal narrative and archive. Here, far from the mountains of my homeland, I recall the peaks of hope and the valleys of despair, and invite you to witness this landscape with me.