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EXODUS: A MIRROR OF HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF ART BIENNIALS
Figure 4: Photo credit Nora Zaïr. A photograph by Nora Zaïr called Up
Nora Zaïr, photographer, worked on Rumi poetry. Rumi was one of the first who elabo-
rated the “Sufi turning” or the dervish dance, the physical exertions of movement, spe-
cifically dancing and whirling, in order to reach a state assumed by outsiders to be one
of “ecstatic trances” a way to travel “above” to be closer to heaven. Her installation, a
photograph “big sticker” is glued to one of the panels of the museum elevator. Nora
photographed a kid next to graffiti on a wall, which said “towards a reinvented world.”
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