Bestiary Of Under Restraint Delighted Beings, 2009

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This installation consist of six videos showing different incompleted and censured portraits who suffer from the inability to self-express. They transform in an attempt to escape from disappearance, extinction and death; Their metamorphosis is a failure.

For the opening, the installation was accompanied by a live performance: myself, in disguise, erasing parts of my drawings.

I presented this work for the exhibition Fable et Fragment of honored graduated students from Beaux-art. I was awarded the top prize for the exhibition: The Hiscox Start 2009 award :
http://www.hiscox.fr/Default.aspx?tabid=1112

To watch a clip of this work, click here :


Here is a still image of videos with their titles :
1&2) Complementary couple, 3&4) Cleaning, 5)Proprietor, 6)Migrator

Comments

Aydin said…
Afarin Elika! Que ton souffle soit chaud!
July 27, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Unknown said…
Vous etes tres magnifique...eyval Elika jan.dokhtar che pishrafti kardi,afariiiiiiiiiiiin azizaaaaaaaaaam
July 28, 2009 at 8:04 AM
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