Elika Hedayat

TAN is a project containing a 70 minutes documentary film and a series of painting and drawings.  The solo exhibition TAN presented by Aline Vidal Gallery , took place from October 10th to October 22th 2017 in Paris.  A private screening of the documentary was organized, in parallel with the exhibition, at Cinéma du Panthéon on October 15th. TAN is born from my encounter with  Ismaïl, Alireza  and  Hadi.  The project illustrates portraits of two groups of men; mutilated solders of the Iran/Irak war and the Iranian bodybuilders in a small city from south of Iran. These three protagonists are related by the desire of immortalizing their own body. Nevertheless,  what separates them is the generational gap and how the relationship with the body changes in a society from an ideological and religious point of view to a complete materialistic approach.

Al A'raaf is a project commissioned by Mohsen Gallery for Pasio, a 7.5m2 x 9m gallery courtyard exhibition space dedicated to art installations. This project containing two paintings, a mural drawing, a silicone/plexiglass sculpture and a video installation, has been on view at Mohsen Gallery in Tehran from June 30th to July 26th 2017.

My works have been presented among the artists  choosen by Annette Messager for a documentary about women artists, produced by ARTE TV channel. Watch the extract here :

Within the official program of the France/Korea cultural year 2015-16, I've been invited to be a part of the group exhibition  Faire des mondes/Greating worlds curated by Françoise Docquiert and  Marianne Derrien.  The selected artists were Bertille Bak, Romain Bernini, Elika Hedayat and Rémy Yadan. The exhibition has been first presented  at the National Museum of Kyungpook university in Daegu and afterwards at  Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art , in Gyeongju , where I also made a mural painting.