“If you’re possessed by one, there is that trouble—the horror—of interruption of flow, of being in your life. It’s almost like they’re hacking into a system. Maybe, jinn are a kind of hacker.”
– Iranian-American artist
Morehshin Allahyari, on her obsession with West Asian spirits and their cyborgian nature. In her work
She Who Sees the Unknown (2017–2021), Allahyari used 3D modelling to visualize female and/or queer demons as avatars for hysteria, gendered morality, and the experience of “living in a female body in the Middle East.”
