Hoda Afshar: Speak The Wind Catherine Opie Initiating and describing a theory

Initiating and describing a theory and method of reading the metaphors and materiality of "the wake

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Hoda Afshar: Speak The Wind Catherine Opie Initiating and describing a theoryOn the islands in the Strait of Hormuz, off the southern coast of Iran, there is a common belief that the winds can possess a person, bringing illness and disease. The existence of similar convictions in some African countries suggests that the cult may have been brought to Iran from southeast Africa through the Arab slave trade. This history is rarely spoken about but these winds and the traces they have left on the islands and their inhabitants are