“Weaving Places, Interlacing Memories” was presented in April 2025 during Performance Day, organized by Mehdy Yarmohammadi at the Shakirail Artistic Workshops Center in Paris.

This performance explores the experience of loss—the loss of loved ones, proximity, and home—engendered by exile. It questions the bodily suffering linked to uprooting and the possibility of building a new space of belonging: an imagined world between departure and arrival. Can such a space truly be inhabited?

During the performance, I projected videos sent to me recently by childhood friends onto the stage, onto transparent fabrics, and onto my body. These videos were filmed in various neighborhoods of Rasht, Tehran, and other places where I grew up and lived—places now inaccessible but deeply present within me. These images, projected in large format, created an immersive atmosphere, giving the illusion of a fleeting return. In parallel, I sewed together photographs from my life in Iran and my life in France, symbolically weaving a link between my two existences.

This work was developed as part of my postdoctoral research within the AIAC laboratory (Arts of Images and Contemporary Art) at Paris 8 University, and the Art, Exile, and Media project led by IRCAV (Institute of Research on Cinema and Audiovisual) at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, with the support of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH).