Reformation

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

with Nsasm Abboud 

Pop-up Museum 
Westergasfabriek-Westerpark


Reformation is a conceptual artwork that tries to tell a story that has repeatedly happened to our cultures which these great human civilizations are based. 
Our global community holds many cultures, but these cultures have been exposed to a lot of obstacles, acts or wars sometimes changing their form.  Here we ask what form cultures acquire when it moves between societies and the stages of the story? And how can we formulate it?

Reformation is an installation in the place that bears the story of an Arabic translation of an ancient Persian poem of the Sophie poet and the ancient philosopher Omar Khayyam. This text was famous in the Arab street and has been composed by many famous writers and singers. The text of this poem has been reformulated several times and has been away from its original form for hundreds of years, today we try to give all this distortion, change and cultural transition a form through this performance in the same time we are trying to say that the transmission of civilization is not necessarily a weakness, but it may be representing it in another way that touches the current reality and tests a new place and a new generation.