NATURE/paradise is a cross-media installation exploration into the dissociative psychological warfare, addressing the mythological journeys of women in contemporary Islam. The paradoxical conflict between NATURE / paradise has come to symbolize the conflictual and often dangerous human divisions that represent much of the Islamic world today.
The idealization of nature and the dream of an eventual paradise are intensely manifested in the subconscious. Given that history in the muslim world is deeply contested, we begin in NATURE / paradise to enter a performative space symbolized by a reactive performance.