Blue Girl is a performance and video installation honoring Sahar Khodayari, an Iranian woman who self-immolated in 2019 after being barred from entering a stadium to watch her beloved soccer team. The work merges live performance, video projection, and hand-sewn textile. A white fabric dress outline—stitched by hand—serves as both performance site and projection surface, marking Sahar’s absent body. During the performance, I sit beside the fabric, sewing black and white pentagon shapes (evoking soccer seams) into the dress outline while a film of a burning football is projected onto it, the flames aligning with the sewn pentagons. The sound design juxtaposes the crackling fire with stadium cheers, emphasizing the gender disparity that denied Sahar access to public space. Through the slow act of stitching, an intimate gesture associated with mending and care, the work confronts the inadequacy of repair in the face of this irreversible loss. Each pentagon honors Sahar’s unfulfilled desire while acknowledging that no act of mourning can undo state violence and restore what was taken.