Elham Rokni-On Looking into the Cracks in Identity

A conversation between the Artist Elham Rokni and Darya Aloufy

The politics that restrict our movement is something that concerns me personally, as someone who lived in Iran and now resides in Israel. There is some kind of parallelisation between the closed political borders and the movement of immigrants and refugees - the forces that motivate people to move stand in contrast to the movement that is constantly stopped by borders. This way of thought has amalgamated over time with my physical condition today, being in a wheelchair: the movement of the limited body, the movement of the chair in the world, and the arbitrary boundaries that restrict the chair.

Elham Rokni