RE-ITER
FROM JANUARY, 4 TO MAY, 31 2010
For her residency at the CENTQUATRE, the Iranian video artist Anahita Hekmat has in mind a process punctuated by sound and visual events, a kind of labyrinth, sometimes constructed, sometimes virtual, composed of several modules scattered right across the centre, and indeed the district.
By offering a new perception of space in which images and sounds signal an insistent temporality Anahita Hekmat’s work questions the private and politic connections individuals have with history. Videos made with children will be integrated into her arrangement. A cartography of the whole project will reveal the enigmatic potential of the CENTQUATRE and the surrounding area as spaces, down to their furthermost recesses. An extension of the project will consist of a georeferenced outside itinerary, guided by audiotape.
BIOGRAPHY
Anahita Hekmat was born in Tehran. She took a master’s degree in painting at Tehran University. In 2003 she moved to France where she continued her studies at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, then concentrating on video and installation. At the same time she attended anthropology classes. In 2006 she was awarded her DNSEP. At present she is a student and researcher at the EnsadLab in the field of interactive devices, developing work that crosses ethnographic methodology and subjective imagination. These hybridizations, worked out through various media, conjure up fleeting universes that attest to a parallel and invisible world, while at the same time offering a unique vision of the contemporary world. Her works construct a suspended time in which individuals abstracted from their spatial dimension brush the frontiers of documentary and fiction.
