Works presented by Gallery Aline Vidal at DRAWING NOW PARIS / LE SALON DU DESSIN CONTEMPORAIN, International art fair exclusively dedicated to contemporary drawings, Paris, 2012.
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.
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.
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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