HODA AFSHAR: Performer l'invisible opening at the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris, 30 Sep 2025 - 25 January 2026
- hodaba
- Sep 19
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First monographic exhibition of the artist in France, Hoda Afshar. Performer the invisible unveils his unpublished installation The Fold, which offers a critical proofreading of photographs from the museum's collections, made by the psychiatrist Gaëtan de Clérambault in Morocco between 1918 and 1919 in a colonial context. Through the exploration of this fund and the reappropriation of images, Hoda Afshar questions the way in which the photographic medium, used by the dominant powers, shapes - and sometimes encloses - the representation of bodies.
The route deploys another major installation by the artist: Speak the wind, a visual essay on local beliefs and ritual practices related to winds in the islands of the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran.
Between photographs, drawings, mirrors, videos and sound installations, the exhibition traces the main axes of the artist's research, and offers a reflection on our relationship to the images and stories they build.
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