BALLAD OF LEYLAS
آواز لیلاها
2023 - IN PROGRES
Ballad Of Leylas (آواز لیلاها ) is an ongoing project about narratives in
Iran’s history that are positioned in the margin and footnotes or are hidden.
In Persian literature, “Leyla” loves and is loved, yet she lacks a specific character, as if anyone could be a “Leyla”. Exploring the interconnection between marginalized and footnote historical events happening in different times and places, I have found a thread of poems being repeated in them, all mentioning the name “Leyla.” I have used this thread to present their interconnection, employing the element of “touch” as the deprived embodiment in the narratives, retelling them within a new frame, as intimacy was the missing element in the narrations.