Commissioned by Brest’s Antipodes Festival and Avignon Festival’s Sujets à Vif program, Yalda Younes invited musician Yasmine Hamdan for a collaboration, with no other premise than the desire to work together despite diverging artistic styles and methods.

The two of them weaved a hypnotic, minimalist work, held by Yasmine Hamdan’s repetitive composition consisting of a sample of 3 koto notes, while her voice murmurs Oum Kalthoum’s famous ‘ana fintizarak’ song. Like a tender breeze, the music attempts to soothe and liquify Yalda Younes’ inconsolable, tense body, incarnating the locked-in state of perpetual mourning with no room for grief.