In the sou\u00adt\u00adhern rea\u00adches of Tehran, the capi\u00adtal of Iran, lies Kahrizak\u2009\u2014\u2009a town whe\u00adre his\u00adto\u00adry lin\u00adgers in qui\u00adet evo\u00adlu\u00adti\u00adon, steeped in echoes of the past. It is home to a\u00a0sugar refi\u00adne\u00adry born from Belgian hands\u2009\u2014\u2009a seed sown in a\u00a0once-fer\u00adti\u00adle lands\u00adca\u00adpe of lush lawns, brim\u00adming with pro\u00admi\u00adse and nur\u00adtu\u00adring dreams of pro\u00adgress and the bloom of industrialization.<\/p>\n
Now, the refi\u00adne\u00adry stands half-rui\u00adned yet ste\u00adad\u00adfast, sur\u00adroun\u00added by gra\u00adves, decay, and spraw\u00adling mass con\u00adstruc\u00adti\u00adon. Its wrinkled walls bear the inde\u00adli\u00adble marks of time, a\u00a0silen\u00adced wit\u00adness to the rise and fall of its sur\u00adroun\u00addings and the relent\u00adless trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon of the regi\u00adon. Kahrizak\u2019s refi\u00adne\u00adry is more than just a\u00a0relic of the past; it stands as a\u00a0pro\u00adfound sym\u00adbol of what was lost and sacri\u00adfi\u00adced as ambi\u00adti\u00adon res\u00adha\u00adped the\u00a0land.<\/p>\n
This per\u00adfor\u00adman\u00adce is a\u00a0result of Sana\u2019s research pro\u00adject\u00a0Sugar Cubes<\/em>, an explo\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon of the his\u00adto\u00adric indu\u00adstri\u00adal ties bet\u00adween Belgium and Iran in the sugar industry.<\/p>\n Credits
\n<\/strong>Creation, direction & per\u00adfor\u00adman\u00adce: Sana Ghobbeh
\nDevelopment Assistant: Arezoo Khazanbeig
\nDramaturgical advi\u00adce: Jaime Llopis, Maarten Van den Bussche
\nMentor: Samah Hijawi
\nLighting design: Jan Maertens
\nSound design: Ioana Mandrescu
\nImage: Navid Fayaz
\nProduction: Kunstenwerkplaats KWP
\nCoproduction: Beursschouwburg, wpZimmer, Monty, Kunsthal Gent, Kunsthal Extra City
\nWith the sup\u00adport of the Flemish Government and VGC, and Kunstencentrum BUDA
\nSpecial thanks to Herman Sorgeloos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30435","residentie","type-residentie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/residentie\/30435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/residentie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/residentie"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/residentie\/30435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33639,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/residentie\/30435\/revisions\/33639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}