about

I am an artist born in Iran on 1985 and based in Paris since 2011.
My practice unfolds through photography, video, drawing and installation. The time I spent working alongside cinema directors has influenced the way I work with images, and also my interest in questioning their construction, diffusion and reception. I aspire to make those processes visible but also make my own visual fictions out of images I gather on the Internet, news websites or from my own photography practice. I am interested in ambiguities and transitional states more than affirmations. In the same way, I seek the « loose links » between artistic techniques, and the poetic flaws coming out from the marriage or mediums excite me a lot, like black holes opening on new, undiscovered horizons.
although my practice is informed by my story growing up in Iran and migrating to Europe, it is not a direct theme in my work as I have been trying to avoid the pitfall of “self-exoticism”. However, the paradoxical understanding of the image I am interested in, in-between critical distance and fetishisation, definitely comes from the complex and disillusioned relationship I have with the country I am from.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 • Œil pour œil, Frac Île-de-France Le Plateau (La Vitrine), Paris, France.
2018 • Discreetly Living Behind Your Face, Galerie 52, Folkwang-Uni, Essen, Germany.
2018 • Discreetly Living Behind Your Face, Galerie des petits carreaux, Saint-Briac, France.
2017 • Telesm, kultur kapellen, Pictoplasma festival, Berlin, Germany.

duo EXHIBITIONS

2011 • Nature Regulate, Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2010 • Aklil-al-Molook, Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2007 • Exopalasht, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2006 • Related-Unrelated, Tehran Artists House, Tehran, Iran.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 • Dip into the Bleu, Maison Touchard, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
2021 • Memento, Zeto project space, Paris, France.
2020 • En Être, 70ème édition de Jeune Création, Romainville, France.
2020 • Le radeau des cimes, Villa Belleville, Paris,  France.
2019 • En Cas de Pluie (hors les murs de Jeune Création), Friche étex, Paris, France.
2018 • ArtvilniusArt art fair, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2016 • Face à Face, Association La Source, La Guéroulde, France.
2014 • Transparency, Galerie des petits carreaux, Sain-Briac, France.
2013 • Cousu Main-le temps passé, Galerie des petits carreaux, Paris, France.
2013 • Art On Paper, Art On Paper art fair, Bruxelles, Belgium.
2013 • Paysages, Galerie des petits carreaux, Sain-Briac, France.
2013 • Interdit aux mineurs, Galerie des petits carreaux, Paris, France.
2012 • Slick Art Fair Paris 7ème édition, Le Garage(haut-marais), Paris, France.
2012 • Jaunes, Galerie des petits carreaux, Paris, France.
2012 • AnimaFac Festival, Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris, France.
2010 • Contemporary Illustration, Saba Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2010 • Window, Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2010 • Obligatory military service, Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2009 • Nowruz, Shirin Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2007 • 9th visual arts biennial, Contemporary Art Museum, Tehran, Iran.
2007 • Small Drawing, Ebnesina Gallery,  Tehran, Iran.
2006 • House of Drawing 2nd Gathering, House of Drawing, Tehran, Iran.
2006 • Limited Access, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2006 • House of Drawing 1st Gathering, House of Drawing, Tehran, Iran.
2006 • 8th visual arts biennial, Contemporary Art Museum, Tehran, Iran.
2005 • First Poster, Honar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.

RESIDENCIES

2022 • SHIFT, Programme d’accompagnement d’artistes (AMAC), Paris, France.
2021 • Drawing Factory avec Cnap, Paris, France.
2020 • La Box ENSA, Bourges, France.
2019 • Villa Belleville, Paris, France.
2018 • Galerie des petits carreaux, Saint-Briac, France.
2017 • Association La Source, La Guéroulde, France.
2016 • Association La Source, La Guéroulde, France.
2014 • Forum des images with Arte, Paris, France.

GRANTS

2021 • Production grant for a Masterclass with Wim Wenders,
Institut Français / Goethe Institut, France, Allemagne.
2020 • CNAP (Centre National des Arts Plastiques, The French National Contemporary Art Collection), permanent collection for Lumen series, Paris, France.
2019 • CNL Bourse aux auteurs for the book Les Secrets de Sinavar.

Talks

2021 • Talk at ENSA(école de beaux-arts)  Bourges, France.
2018 • Talk at Folkwang-University with Gisela Bullacher, Essen, Germany.
2018 • Parrain de la Nuit de la lecture, Ministry of Culture, Paris, France.
2017 • Intervention for Little Villette festival at La Villette, Paris, France.
2017 • Talk at Bétonsalon, Center for Art and Research, Paris France.
2017 • Conference at Pictoplasma Festival, Berlin, Germany.
2016 • Intervention at Centre Pompidou on Abbas Kiarostami, Paris, France.

BOOKS (AS AUTEUR/ILLUSTRATOR)

La Petite Vague Bleue, published at Gallimard Jeunesse.
Les Secrets de Sinavar et autres Contes d’Irân, published at Gallimard Jeunesse.
De Lamour, Fragments d’un Discours Scientifique, published at Actes sud.
Terres et Hommes, published at Actes sud-Junior.
Les Poulpes, futurs maitres du monde, published at Actes sud-Junior.
L’incroyable aventure de la génétique, published at Nathan.
Sonnette entre Chien et Loup, published at Gallimard Jeunesse.
Mes Amis Monstres, published at Actes sud-Junior.
Un Arbre pour Ami, published at GallimardJeunesse.

PUBLICATIONS

Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives by Hamid Keshmirshekan.
Signing Tehran – Eine Designreporteage by Julia Kahl.
Urban Iran by BirAnna Olson.

PRESS

• Interview Magazine • Kaltbult Magazine • Libération • Transmettre le cinema • Étapes   • Premiere • Le Telegramme • France Culture • France Inter • Piiaf • Doolittle • Milk Magazine • Le journal des arts • L’Œil Magazine • The AOI • Art Tomorrow • Herfeh Honarmand • Etemad.

COLLABORATIONS

— Maison Margiela for communication on 2022 collection.
— Zaman books (Morad Montazami)  on exhibitions:
ARABÉCÉDAIRE (2018)
Dusted Waters (2018)
Mohamed Melehi and the Casablanca Art School (2019)
— Centre Pompidou (Clément Chéroux & Sylvie Pras) on
Jafar Panahi, Images/Nuages (2016).
— Jafar Panahi on
Ceci n’est pas un film (2011)
Pardé (2013)
Taxi Téhéran (2015)
Trois visages (2017)
Hidden (2019)

— Abbas Kiarostami on Les Murs (2009) exhibition at Paris gallery.
— Sadegh Tirafkan on his exhibition (2008) at Assar gallery.