The Moon in Your Mouth

Samah Hijawi BE PS
  • 19h
  • 16h30 19h
Informations
  • Duration 50'
  • From age 14
  • In English - written text available in French
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La Soliderie*
Parking du Martinet
(en-haut de l’escalier)
Route de St-Cergue 1
Nyon

*La Soliderie is a community-driven, inclusive cultural and social hub that was started during COVID and built up through a participatory process. It opened in autumn 2024 and includes a solidarity grocery, serving people in precarious situations in the Nyon district, and a public café, whose proceeds help fund the shop. More info: www.lasoliderie.ch

  • Accessible to people with reduced mobility
  • English speaker friendly

The Moon in Your Mouth explores the kinship between human and non-human beings through astrology and food. Accompanied by an olive tree – a powerful symbol of the Palestinian people – and a gathering of familiar plants, Samah Hijawi invites you to taste the flavours of the Middle East while gently and poetically mapping the cosmology of the ancient world. Drawing on the old Arabic adage “What is above is like what is below”, from The Emerald Tablet, she defends the fundamental belief that the universe and the earth are deeply interconnected. By revealing unexpected relationships between beings, their lands, trees and stars, Hijawi sheds light on what we collectively lose in times of war and destruction.

*The Emerald Tablet is a centuries-old text, written between the 6th and 8th centuries. It expresses the idea that everything in the universe is connected, that what happens in the sky is reflected on the earth, and vice versa. This philosophy invites us to perceive profound harmony between body, nature and the cosmos. It remains a key reference in many mystical and philosophical traditions in the West.

 

  • Samah Hijawi is lying on a rug with an oriental pattern. There are yellow and green olives around her. She is holding up a dry branch from a shrub, covering one of her eyes with it.
    ©Jihan Safar
  • Samah Hijawi is standing and painting a map with a brush. The map is drawn on a huge sheet of paper. The audience is gathered around the sheet. In the background, olive branches can be seen.
    ©Sanne Peper
  • Several small dishes (olive oil, pita bread, etc.) for the audience are placed on the ground on a large sheet of paper. In the background, there are olive branches.
    ©Sanne Peper
  • Samah Hijawi is telling stories to the audience. Everyone is sitting on the ground, on a large sheet of paper. On this paper, Samah has drawn a map. This map tells the story of the Middle East.
    © Sanne Peper

concept and performance Samah Hijawi production Kunstenwerkplaats wzv coproduction Monty, VIERNULVIER, KAAP, Kunstenfestivaldesarts & A.M. Qattan Foundation support Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Flanders State of the Art acknowledgements La Soliderie Nyon

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