ZULF draws on coiffure – the everyday morning ritual of combing and arranging hair. A universal gesture with roots extending more than 8,000 years, recurring across cultures, geographies and time. When this intimate practice is staged in public space, it generates a shared bodily language that exceeds linguistic and cultural boundaries. The recognisable movement opens a space of shared presence.
The title ZULF is the Urdu word for hair and reflects Pervin’s dual cultural positioning. In her practice, multiple cultural inheritances coexist, where difference is not resolved but held as a site of relation, tension and new articulations.
ZULF is performed as a live work in public space, unfolding in real time before an audience. Simultaneously, the performance is recorded as a video work, produced in parallel with the live action. The work thus exists both as event and moving image, continuing beyond its initial activation.
With ZULF, Pervin engages healing as a collective gesture rather than an individual therapeutic act. In a moment marked by fragmentation and distance, the work insists on a shared experiential field, where recognition and participation form the basis for renewed relations.
Through repetition, presence and embodied action, the work explores how temporary communities may emerge within public space.
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FOYERcontemporary X EventyrKiosken
FOYERcontemporary X EventyrKiosken