Through the Sun

Multimedia Installation, August 15 -September 18, 2026

Reisig and Taylor Contemporary is presenting Through the Sun, a multimedia video installation by Shaghayegh Cyrous that traces a passage through memory, myth, pressure, and transformation. Shaped by political, social, religious, and geopolitical forces, the work draws on ancestral memory, Iranian mythology, surviving texts, and oral traditions to move toward light, truth, harmony, and survival.

Rooted in Iranian mythology, Zoroastrian cosmology, and Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh,* Through the Sun reflects on passage as an ancient and necessary act. Siavash enters the fire to reveal the truth. Rostam crosses the seven trials of the Haft Khan. The human spirit moves through darkness, danger, and uncertainty in search of the self.

Here, the sun is not only a source of light. It is a threshold. To move through it is to be tested, burned, revealed, and transformed. Fire becomes both trial and witness; light becomes both force and destination. The work reflects on the enduring struggle between light and darkness, creation and destruction, good and evil, while asking what it means to survive forces larger than the self.

Within this mythological framework, the search for light becomes both cosmic and deeply personal. Through the Sun is a meditation on endurance, truth, and the possibility of renewal after passage through fire.