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ARASH HANAEI ,Reply to All, 2023

Installation vidéo

My recycled wooden structure gives the impression of an unfinished bridge, with the difference that instead of connecting two spaces, it halves a space. The structure pays homage to "Bridge Over The Tree", an artwork by Siah Armajani, as it passes over a bench belonging to the Monnaie de Paris. Now the bench emphasizes the existence of a random meeting place.

In front of it, on the screen, I show the video In The Night Garden [light a fire under your skin]' a few short whispering sentences inspired by seeing the wooden complex of the Cité Pierre Semard, a unique work by Iwona Buczkowska :

"I am a ghost, a bodiless head. Bring me back with your body.I am a poet who forgot the appropriate words. No one can crop my ideas. Not even time.This might be a truth for the future! "—Arash Hanaei

In the Night Garden, Light a fire under your skin, 2022

Vidéo - Durée : 60 s. 

Video Edit: Yasser Gharooni
Video Narration: Sarah Knill Jones

Construction of the wooden structure: Malotta

With the support of Manifesto, Paris and Ab-Abnar Gallery, Londres

ARASH HANAEI 

Born in 1978 in Teheran (Iran), Arash Hanaei lives and works in Paris. He is resident at POUSH, Aubervilliers. 

After studying photography at the University of Teheran, he developed a practice combining different media and plastic techniques. From 2008, he produced the Capital series, a sequenced autopsy of the city of Teheran, questioning the transformations of public space in the post-war era. Since 2014, when he moved to Paris, Arash Hanaei's work has gradually evolved from documentary and photographic practices to a more speculative, cross-media approach questioning post-Internet strategies in times of crisis. In his recent videos and "digital drawings", Hanaei explores the political collapse or dead-end of 1970s utopian architecture by reworking landscapes of suburban areas. The scenes he creates are at once formally fascinating, dreamlike and disquieting.

His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including at Rencontres d'Arles 2022, Ab-Abnar Gallery in London, LudLow38 Gallery in Berlin, the Goethe-Institut in New York and the Yassi Foundation in Tehran. He has also taken part in group shows at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, the CAB Foundation in Brussels, the MAXXI (National Museum of 21st Century Art) in Rome and the LACMA Museum in Los Angeles… His works are present in the collections of the Musée d'art Moderne, Paris; CNAP, Paris; Peter-Messers Collection, Berlin; LACMA Museum, Los Angeles. He is the winner of the BMW Art Makers Prize, 2022.

*The artist is presented by Manifesto and Ab-Anbar.