Sara Jajou

is an Assyrian-Chaldean artist working at the intersection of contemporary histories and ancient futures. 


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Selected Works
  1. Shimane ‘d Bakhtathe 
  2. Apparitions
  3. I like to be a girl with fur
  4. (My mother's song) أغنية أمي
  5. I met my lover barefoot
  6. My Jidu tells good stories
  7. English-Sureth Dictionary
I like to be a girl with fur (2024)
Sara Jajou, I like to be a girl with fur, 2024,  single channel video with subtitles, 2min 38sec. Music production by Jackson Elhage.
I like to be a girl with fur (2024) is a spoken-word sound piece transcribed from a poem. It features three distinct voices commenting on the racially-charged sexualisation of women in public spaces.
Transcript:

I like to be a girl with fur. It makes me feel alive.

I like to be a promiscuous lady. It makes me feel so nice.

Swimming legs lady, naughty legs lady, spa thighs lady, sauna ass lady

Georgie I'm with this beautiful lady today.
I like to be an exotic woman. It makes me feel so fine.

Hairy legs woman, caveman woman, wild woman, jungle woman

Taste-teste menu woman, 10 minute woman, prime time woman, sloppy seconds woman.

I like to be a watched woman. It makes me feel so missed.

Sexy woman, sauna woman, pool woman, gym woman

Local woman, leisure woman, pleasure woman, Toyota Corolla woman

Car park woman, Reverse park woman, Roxburgh Park woman

Somerton road woman, single woman, one woman, weak woman

I like that you have hair. Most women like to be clean. But I like a girl with fur. It makes me feel alive.
I hate to be a karen girl, I want to speak with the manager girl, where’s the paperwork girl.

Liar girl, snake girl, fibber girl, rumour girl.

It’s complicated, girl. It’s ambiguous, girl. Who’s to know, girl. It’s hard when I’m a

Swimming legs girl

Naughty legs girl

Spa thighs girl

Sauna ass girl

Bikini girl

Sexy girl

Asking girl

Begging girl

Enjoying girl

Fabricating girl

I would never wear a bikini to the pool, girl. I never go to the sauna, girl. You should go somewhere else, girl.
I hate to be a small girl.

Tittle-tattle girl, blame game girl, tough luck girl, world sucks girl.

Same old, girl.

It’s hard to be a girl with fur.

It’s hard when I’m an animal woman

Carnivore bite woman, tiger spite woman, flesh feast woman, blood thirst woman.

Just the way you love woman

Jungle woman, wild woman, carcass woman, carnage woman

I like to be a vile woman

Foul mouth woman, fester rotten woman, dirt sour woman, devour all woman.

He said he likes a girl with fur but I’m a cannibal woman

Savage smell woman, smell of prey woman, prey to eat woman, eat you woman

I grab his neck and suddenly he’s an

eeny meeny man, itty bitty man, teeny tiny man, tiny bite-y man.

I'm exactly what you want woman

A get you hard woman

Rigor mortis woman.