Leila Ghasempor

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Our Weapon Is Love 
We Are Gathered for Humanity. Make Art, Not War.

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My artistic practice is a multidisciplinary and performance-based exploration of collective consciousness, shared responsibility, and human interconnectivity. Rooted in lived experience and academic inquiry, my work examines love, pain, displacement, and the ongoing conflict between ethics and politics.

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I approach performance as a communal act — one that invites presence, reflection, and participation. Central to my practice is the belief that love is not passive, but an active and radical force. Love, in my work, becomes both method and message.

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I frequently incorporate steam infused with rose flowers into my dance-performance works. This element functions as a sensory and symbolic language drawn from my Kurdish cultural heritage — a culture grounded in love, kindness, empathy, and collective care, where the pain of others is shared as one’s own. The rose, rising as vapor, embodies both fragility and persistence, memory and healing.

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My works are educational and community-based, designed to raise awareness and offer embodied experiences of interconnection. Through movement, ritual, and shared space, I seek to create moments where audiences are not observers, but participants — gathered together in humanity.

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