Dance, We Are at War
Dance We Are at War is a storytelling journey through an imaginary world. Combining aspects of surrealism and Persian miniature painting, among other sources, I explore ideas of freedom, agency, and the strength of women in Iran. The Iranian government’s effort to control and restrict the movement of the female body has made dance into a tool for resilience and political resistance to the regime. In this way, dance is not only an expression of joy, but a weapon against oppression. This duality is central to my artworks, in which I blend Eastern and Western elements, virtue and violence, beauty and deformity, tradition and modernity, religion and secularism, women and war, and reality and fantastic imagery.
