When making the work, she thinks first about Iran. Because there are so many things that we don't ever discuss among ourselves. My intention is to formulate it in a way that, although it is very much about Iran, it touches on issues that go beyond our difference. There is common ground, she is saying. The idea that there is one world, one linear rational point of view that can ravel everything up into sense, is peculiarly male and by no means confined to the east.
Women have their place, men have their place.
It is never about being equal to men. They don't see themselves as submissive or victims. They break the rules, but they do it in a quiet, subtle way. I am not saying that the view of the outsider is completely false, but that it is exaggerated. So in my work I try to show that kind of candid feminism that can only be understood if you think about it in their terms.