Elika Hedayat

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

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.

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 !  

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.