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. This wall installation, together with a performance, portrays fragments of that uneven terrain of resistance through my personal narrative and archive.

Here, close to the hills of Krems an der Donau, I recall the peaks of hope and the valleys of despair, and invite you to witness this landscape with me.