Snow white in Tehran

Snow White The classic animated tales and their timeless characters are for me, like so many, intrinsic elements of my childhood. I created the Snow White series based upon my infant nostalgia and the shared youthful heritage of my generation.I changed the details of this classic story and created my own contemporary Persian Snow White. My 21st century Seven Dwarfs have matured grown up and are no longer innocent and are stripped their ingenuousness. The relationship between Snow White and her Seven Dwarfs has been augmented and now the wicked Queen want as much to be a part of their gang as to usurp it.The combative quest for dominance has been removed as the moral lines between kind and evil are blurred the idea of being ultimate distorted, the notion of supremacy subverted. In recent times my generation in Iran has gone through what could be described as a social journey as relationships and friendships are restructured. The sense of unity and trust that existed in childhood is now indicative of a period of innocence and relegated to the past. For my generation it would seem that the concept of a friend has lost its emotive meaning and become a tool a person to merely use as stepping stone towards achievement or fulfillment of desire. The human connection is lost in favour of advancement and, in a sense; we are simply using each other as opposed to connection with one another. With my work I hope to not make a statement but pose questions How did this happen? The maternal symbolism of Snow White is removed and the dwarfs exposed half naked. What is this saying about our contemporary philosophies and our views on purity? Is purity something lost the more one is tainted by maturity our outlook forever marred by the destruction of childhood virtue? Is this ultimately the cornerstone and beginning of immorality? Is this destructive or, as the realities of the world open themselves up to us, as it should be – the realisation of adulthood and the loss of ignorance? Which is tangible and which transient? Which meaningful and which imagined? I let the audience decide and in doing so allow a question mark to hang in the air like a poison apple or a kiss from a prince.