Diane Mahin

After growing up together as Dutch-Iranian siblings, we both studied at the Institute of Performative Arts in Maastricht after completing theoretical majors in social sciences and humanities. When we work together we connect strongly on our existentialist and absurdist view on reality, as well as how humans are subject to the manipulation of other (non-)human entities. These ideas can be overwhelming and confronting, but also liberating and - if you manage to zoom out - painfully funny. We like to aestheticize these feelings, hoping to reframe mental suffering against the bizarre backdrop of reality. This results in audiovisual performative works which give form to behaviors of humans living inside fabricated and inevitable patterns, such as our inescapable union as siblings.