Riding in Silence & The Crying Dervish
Belgium
2026
Riding in Silence & The Crying Dervish is a meditative journey that draws from the depths of my family history, revealing the echoes of migration, forced departures, and the quiet patience of those caught between two worlds. I explore the intersection between masculinity, political ideology, and displacement, and how historical forces shape personal narratives in both visible and invisible ways. I examine how masculinity has been shaped by war, colonialism, nationalism, and the rigid structures of religious ideology-instrumentalized to uphold systems of power and violently controlled.
There are no easy answers; let us accept the discomfort of contradiction, acknowledge that resistance does not always resemble rebellion, and recognize that exile is both a state of being and a psychological inheritance.
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About the artist
Born in 1977, Mashid Mohadjerin lives and works in Belgium. She is a visual artist, storyteller, and lecturer whose work oscillates between the personal and the political, the visible and the invisible. Drawing on her experience as a documentary photographer, she weaves long-term poetic research, blending image, sound, text, and performance. She holds a PhD in Arts from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.