Anahita Hekmat

Green Home was filmed in Hekmat’s childhood house in Tehran, where a greenhouse has been built as the architectural and organic nucleus of the home. The plants are seen and treated as guardians to the life unfolding there. The video is constructed as an origin myth —the perennial plants in the home carry memories of the place and possess the ability to transmit memories and stories to different generations over time. The intimate and mind space appears in the distance between home and its greenhouse.

Born in Tehran, lives between several cities

Bachelor in Art, University of Tehran, 2001

DNSEP, Art, HEAR, Strasbourg, 2006

Anahita Hekmat works both alone and in collaboration with ethnologists, musicians and other specialists to create multidisciplinary and multimedia experiences. Using architectural elements linked to the past and destroyed (relics), she questions the capacity of a specific space to recall and reactivate the memory of the past. The world of childhood which is a recurring motif in her work and rites of passage serve as a reference base for universal temporal units. Her current projects trace the imaginary of war and childhood memories as well as the post-cataclysmic mnemonic landscape. For each project, she rediscovers strata of experience specific to each place in relation to political, historical and social factors.