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Les Dépossédés (The Dispossessed)

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The Dispossessed is the title for a series of multidisciplinary works presented at my solo show, curated by Françoise Docquiert, at the Malakoff Contemporary Art Center from September 23rd to December 10th, 2023. Here is an excerpt from a text written by Françoise Docquiert about the show:   "  The title of Elika Hedayat's exhibition, "Les Dépossédés" (The Dispossessed), is borrowed from the eponymous book by the American science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin, who is considered one of the influential figures in literature in the United States today. Addressing ethical and spiritual questions of otherness and considering the perspective of the other, Ursula K. Le Guin explores current concerns such as the testing of social bonds, gender binarism, feminism, humanity in the realm of the living, ecological threats, colonization, expansion, or the disappearance of human species. With the same inquiries and a sense of dispossession, Elika Hedayat has constructed this ...
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Mutations

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This solo show presented at Hamzianpour & Kia Gallery , from April 23 to May 23 2022 in Los Angeles, features a series of paintings and an  animation piece .  Here is an extract from the press release :  " The small, personable, dense paintings of Hedayat are windows into another world. Bewildered protagonists make up a dreamscape with recurring motifs of biological systems, rhizomatic growths, and interconnected pathways. The paintings’ internally glowing sense of light feel like projections themselves, mental images of a world past or to come, or conjured in response to the current conditions of life on Earth. The implied narrative of Hedayat’s paintings key into her video work almost as frame stills, cinematic instances which hold time expansively in their stillness. Their painted layers and material depth invite the viewer to enter their space with mind and body, into a carefully conjured realm..." To watch the animation use the links below : MUTATIONS
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Permutations Chroniques

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Permutaions chroniques is a mural drawing/installation I've made during the opening day of AsiaNOW  ,October 21st, in Paris. Permutaions chroniques is part of the project  Mutations. Here is a text by Aline Vidal Gallery about this piece :   Elika Hedayat’s scenarios are inhabited by mysterious characters half-animals half-plants, half-humans half-bacteria, living in constant metamorphosis. These  Mutations  are enclosed in their frames, as microcosmos where species blend and coexist, or develop on broad surfaces, like an in-progress narrative. Both storyteller of rocambolesque events and zoologist discovering imagined filiations, Elika Hedayat sketches on-site this mnemosyne-atlas depicting an oneiric genealogy where the daily life turns into a dream.
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Passage Véro-Dodat / D(es)Rives#4

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For the group show D(es)Rives #4 at Véro-Dodat Gallery , I've presented several pieces (painting, installation and a drawing performance) from my series Mutations. The project  Mutations,  containing series of paintings, drawings, videos and animations stages a Trilogy; evolution, transformation, deformation, about the man and his environment. A world in which the balance of power between human beings and the univers is constantly changing.
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ABYSSAL

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Abyssal is a triptych installation designed for the projet "Fauteuil d'artiste #6" at The Scala Theater hall in Paris. The installation is visible from september 11th to the en of 2020. In Abyssal installation, the auditorium theater hall chair comes to life and takes us on a journey into the immeasurable depths of performing arts where our hearts, eyes, ears and brains venture. To watch the video parts of the installation click hère : Monologue Dialogue
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Hypnose par le grand bouc / De(s) Rives#2

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Art market or art in the market, merchandising or food for thought, this new  project raises the fundamental questions of the daily proximity of art, of its place in the  city and the freedom of artists to  create, at least temporarily, out of traditional networks.  For De(s)rives#2, twenty artists have been invited to take possession of the Beauvau market,  Place  d'Aligre . For this project, I  choosed a  butcher's shop to show my new piece called Hypnose par le grand bouc  ;  hypnosis by the great He-goat. This work refers to the goya's painting called Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat). Here, the witchcraft (Hypnosis) done by the great He-goat awaken the human's unconscious putting him in front of his destiny and those of other living beings on the earth.
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Panem & Circenses

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This solo exhibition presented at Dastan Gallery , from August 16th to September 13th 2019, features a series of drawings, paintings and three animated works. The title of the exhibition is a latin phrase that is literally translated to "Bread and circuses". The phrase is attributed to the Roman poet, Juvenal  active in the late first and early second century  AD. In his Satire X Juvenal writes : " Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses." To watch the three animated works use the links below : Le Saut   PHOTO CALL FIRE !  
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