FARYAL YAZDANIE
THE ARTIST IS LIGHT
Quantum Rickshaw Group show curated by Amin Gulgee and Sara Pagganwala
Artist statement
Let’s go back in time, where a voice Commanded ‘let there be light’ and there was light. Now take the same concept and set it in a socio-religious framework of this society that we live in. My body is a representation of an isolated injustice as a performance. It is a repeated consequence of misrepresentations, misquotations and misled religious teachings and commandments for a woman or a man in light of those consequences. Where the color white, is assigned to purity, it is the same color wrapped around a dead body in hope to reach its transcendental phase. A color used to wrap broken arms, broken limbs, to secure skin and heal once again. Light as in the veil and unveiling of morality and its death. My performance is a consistent struggle to wrap and unwrap my body as I partake on this journey to understanding this ‘light’. But this light, is it really mine to own and transform?
- Faryal Yazdanie