IRAN / GERMANY

Only birds who fly the highest, can shatter the windows, 2022.

Site-specific stained glass windows, variable dimensions.

Garden of Eden Moving: A Petrified Tribe, 2018.

Audio-visual installation, variable dimension.

Only birds who fly the highest, can shatter the windows is a series of stained glass windows inspired by ecclesiastical windows

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that serve a

nanatorial function. Like the chosen site of intervention ie., the windows, the borders of Global North exhibit selective permeability allowing the free flow of fuels, goods and services that boost its economy while debarring bodies made precarious through its unthinking actions. The current work offers a representational leg up to the vulnerable by drawing analogies to migratory and other critically endangered birds that are known to have the highest flights. Garden of Eden Moving A Petrified Tribe looks at events in modern history in relation to the Bachtiaris tribe, and how its nomadic culture and way of life dramatically changed when the Iranian state elected to contain them within the boundaries of Shooshtar-e Noe an industrial township that came up as a replacement for Cuba as the sugar supplier to the USA. The establishment of this town was part of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavis's modernisation reforms of 1963, marketed as the White Revolution'. In the last decades, the sugar factory has been leaking toxic waste, with the result that one of Iran's primary wetlands, now resembles a wasteland. Desertification, extinction of species, and more frequent sandstorms are among the consequence,