Grandma / 1960s / somewhere in the fields in Iran 🤍

Al-Mu’allaqat 3, 1978. Indian ink on paper © Dia Al-Azzawi. Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

I am so opaque I am disappearing -

The white feminist woman told me I could use Farsi, but only if I used it as an ornament. She said Farsi is "incomprehensible to people in Berlin" and that it would make my artist catalogue "opaque."

I will wake up as a peach tomorrow

A remarkable miniature from the Kitab al-Bulhan illustrates a unique biological myth: an entirely female society that sustains itself through botanical reproduction. The painting shows human figures growing like ripened fruit from the branches of the Waq-Waq tree. According to legend, once these figures reach maturity, they detach and fall to the earth, crying 'Waq-Waq!'—a sound that gives both the island and the tree their name.


The Arabic text at the top of the image reads:
القول على شجرة الواق واق (Al-qawl 'ala shajarat al-Waq Waq) This translates literally to: Discourse on the Waq Waq Tree.

Mirajnameh [The Book of the Prophet’s Ascension], Herat, c. 1436, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Supplément Turc 190, f. 34v.


The illustration from folio 34v of the Mirajnameh depicts a monumental celestial being encountered by the Prophet Muhammad during his nocturnal journey. Characterized by multiple tiers of human heads emerging from a single set of shoulders, the figure represents an angel of immense proportions and linguistic capacity. According to the accompanying text, the angel possesses seventy heads, each equipped with seventy tongues, allowing it to praise the Divine in seventy thousand different languages simultaneously.

The angel's multi-colored wings and the stylized cloud-scrolls (t'chi) at the top of the frame are direct stylistic borrowings from Yuan and Ming Chinese iconography, integrated into a Persianate theological context. The deep lapis lazuli background serves not only as a representational 'sky' but as a symbolic space for the miraculous. The hierarchical importance of the angel is further signaled by the intricate, polychrome layering of its plumage and the gold-leaf detailing on its garments.



That being said, fuck all gods and fuck all nations. This world is dystopian and I feel like I am in a constant state of mourning trapped in a state of inbetweeness.

Excited to show this piece today @ Ackerstadtpalast, in Berlin as part of Onsite Festival and Pink You Fest.

Tickets here: https://ackerstadtpalast.de/pink-you-fest-on-site
Info here: https://www.onsitefestival.com/sf-2025-friday/




*let it burn a thousand times*

Performance & 1-channel video installation



“Let it burn a million times” is a clandestine act of self-documentation. This work is as a nonlinear, condensed meditation on returning. It documents a moment when personal narrative collides with the premonition of geopolitical and personal separation, transforming a simple act of filming into a profound, accidental elegy for belonging.

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• shapeshifters • in defense of the poor image • pixelated demonology •

GRRL HAUS Cinema is proud to be participating in Film Lab Palestine's screening:
Palestine Cinema Days Around the World.

On Saturday November 2nd, we will be screening:
Annemarie Jacir's award-winning When I Saw You (2012) +
Maha Haj's Upshot (2024).

Thank you to Oblomov for hosting! Entry is free.

Schedule:
15:30 - When I Saw You (98 minutes)
17:30 - Upshot (34 minutes)


Check out :
Filmlab Palestine | فيلم لاب فلسطين
https://flp.ps/node/859