Natural Drama

With Natural Drama, Sorour Darabi continues his reflection on the fluidity of the human body – this time embodying a being on the edge of fiction and myth, absorbing historical representations to reinvent the relationship between body and nature. Based on two iconic figures of the early twentieth century, Zahra Khanom Taj Saltaneh – an Iranian princess, artist and writer who is a symbol of a non-binary beauty that does conform with Western standards – and Isadora Duncan, whose dance sought to return to natural movement (1877-1927), Natural Drama exposes the body as a territory subject to change: a constantly reinvented material from which to bring forth a mythological being of states and modes of being. Sorour Darabi imagines a corporeal utopia as a hybridisation of past, present and future.