Charnelles Interbioformæ
Yosra Mojtahedi
Exhibition
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
8 Nov. 2024 to 19 Jan. 2025
Opening :
8 Nov. 2024 from 5pm to 10pm
9 Nov. 2024 from 2pm to 10pm
Open every day except Tuesdays:
10am to 12.30pm
and 1.30pm to 5pm
Normal admission: €4.00
Free every 1st Sunday of the month
Free for students and under -26s
(on presentation of proof of age)
City Pass Aix-en-Provence members.
Guided tour of the exhibition:
€2, in addition to entrance fee
Every Wednesday: 3pm
Every Saturday: 11am or 3pm
Price: €6 – entrance fee included
Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme
Aix-en-Provence
Bookings required on 04 42 91 88 74 and
animationpavillon@mairie-aixenprovence.fr
Charnelles Interbioformæ (different forms of life) is a monograph by Iranian artist Yosra Mojtahedi. The works present a haunting disturbance that shrouds our perception of the body: singular sculptures of ‘human-machines’ or ‘body-fountains’, playful, alive – with sound, tactile and fragrant works. A universe in which gender and anatomical sex are dissociated through cyborgism, exploring our increasingly hybrid nature. Bodies without bodies, mutant fossils, flayed or silicone skins, ebb and flow activate living sculptures, or even the mechanics of desire. The organic aspect in his work sometimes results from robotics, where the soft and the hard, the animate and the inanimate, the profane and the sacred interpenetrate in a sensual dance of flesh, materials, cables and liquids.
Artists
Yosra Mojtahedi
Yosra Mojtahedi was born in Teheran in 1986 and graduated from Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains in 2020. Her work explores the intersection between art, science and technology, with a focus on “soft robotics”. Her sculptural installations in the form of “machine-humans” or “body-fountains” are sensual works that challenge and question taboos associated with the female body. Black” occupies a central place in her creations, symbolizing the absolute and the depth of the void, transcending the limits of time. There’s a strongly assumed feminism at work here: she creates universes where nature and gender merge, revealing a political and unitary message to transcend fragile boundaries.
Winner of the ADAGP’s Prix Révélation d’art numérique et d’art vidéo in 2020, her work has been exhibited internationally, notably in France, Belgium, Iran, Italy, Germany, Dubai and Turkey.
Credits & mentions
In co-production with the Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme.
