Isolated bodies, waiting for a touch

Intestine disorder is a condition that has been largely caused by stress and anxiety since Tirdad Hashemi's childhood. As a transgender person, Tirdad has always focused on studying weakened, isolated, and reshaped bodies through their paintings. Drawing ill and malfunctioning intestines together with Soufia Erfanian, Tirdad's partner, is a form of caring for each other in their relationship. Mahsa Saloor's poem accompanying the drawings, allows Tirdad to explore other aspects of the body, which is very important to them as a POC who grew up and lived in a community-oriented culture of Iran. Saloor’s poetry explores the relationship between nature, queer feminist spirituality, sensuality, and eros. They are interested in the subversive potential of poetry as a form to activate the interiority of psychic life to be a sensuous experience and as a tool for fostering cosmologies that aim to recuperate our relationship with nature, the sacred, and the erotic. Connected, Dou's drawings and Mahsa's words gain more meaning and become more powerful.