PRESS
"Freedom for women to define themselves, to trust their own knowledge instead of waiting for others - men - to be good enough to think of that. Witches, as we know them from stories, are the model for this. Though they may be mostly a figment of the imagination, Fakoor evokes them here very convincingly by conjuring with stunningly simple means - light, space, image and sound."
“In a special way, Rainbow combines a mystical poem about a mythical bird and the scientific, Newtonian discourse about the splendour of the rainbow into a contemporary reflection on identity. At the same time, Fakoor’s performative installation remains open to various interpretations by her audience. Just as we sit around it in an ellipse, which both disfigures and stabilises our perspective, Rainbow is strongly focused on a reflection on yourself, on your own perspective and view of the world.”
“Mirrored surfaces hang together and rotate around their axes like a giant mobile. They are fragile mirrors. Full of dents and creases. They reflect the image of the artist and scenographer Nazanin Fakoor in strange color waves. Like a rainbow that keeps losing its form. Or like us perhaps: liquid under the armor of our skin.”
Annemarie Peeters: Nationale identiteit is een mythe, De Standaard 05/2019
“Intimate, dark and yet full of colour, breath, voices, bodies; everything is sound, everything is part of space, everything is choreography. Nazanin Fakoor played with Rainbow not one but several senses in a message full of hope. As it is said in the piece itself, "Everything here is outside of time, outside of measurements, so forget about the beginning, forget about the end.”
“Nazanin Fakoor has created a highly sensory light installation that is enriched with live vocal soundscapes by the SWARA Vocal Ensemble, in a composition by Aftab Darvishi. Their music theatrical installation transports you in the mystical text of the twelfth-century Persian poet Attar and at the same time invites you to come to repentance in the stratification of yourself.”
“Fakoor shares a research on the imagery associated with witches. Nature images flow into urban landscapes and poetic in-between zones such as a choreography of lines drawn by women's hands in the sand, or transparent foil that creates a surreal reflection like a kind of mirage in the forest. Atmospheric strings, silence and high, low, old, young, hesitant and confident voices speaking different languages alternate. The voices try to put fears into words, or ideas about witches. Hexeneinmaleins is a tuneful insight into a working process that will later be developed into a new performance.”
