Dance of the Invisible

Tehran, 2016

In summer 2016, I started working on a series of public installations. The focus of theses installations was “the Absence of women in the society”. To address this issue I chose the dress as the metaphorical embodiment of absence.  “Dance of the Invisible” was a site-specific installation in a local park in Tehran. The installation was consisted of six handmade dresses hanged from the trees. The dresses are made of pieces of tracing paper, covered with printed Persian poems and patterns (which are cultural elements) and dyed with coffee. In the end images of dancing women were printed (lino-cuts) on the dresses. Dance, which has been a repetitive motif in my work; is considered as an inappropriate act in our society and indicates the forbidden act. Regardless of the rules, the hanging dresses are dancing to the wind…