Hoda Afshar - the fold
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Hoda Afshar.Performing the invisible
30/09/2025 - 25/01/2026
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
37, quai Branly
75007 Paris
www.quaibranly.fr/fr/expositions-evenements/au-musee/expositions/
Through a work that is both poetic and committed, Hoda Afshar questions the history of gazes and pushes the limits of photography to make it a powerful tool of revelation and resistance.
Born in Tehran in 1983, Hoda Afshar now lives in Melbourne. One of the most innovative visual artists of her generation, she explores topics such as marginality, gender representation, and displacement.
First monographic exhibition of the artist in France, Hoda Afshar. Performer the Invisible unveils its new installation The Fold, which offers a critical rereading of photographs from the museum's collections, taken by the psychiatrist Gaëtan de Clérambault in Morocco between 1918 and 1919 in a colonial context. Through the exploration of this collection and the reappropriation of images, Hoda Afshar questions the way in which the photographic medium, used by the dominant powers, shapes — and sometimes imprisons — the representation of bodies.
The exhibition features another major installation by the artist: Speak the wind, a visual essay on local beliefs and ritual practices related to the winds in the islands of the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran.
Between photographs, drawings, mirrors, videos and sound installations, the exhibition retraces the main axes of the artist's research, and offers a reflection on our relationship to images and the narratives they construct.
30/09/2025 - 25/01/2026
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
37, quai Branly
75007 Paris
www.quaibranly.fr/fr/expositions-evenements/au-musee/expositions/
Through a work that is both poetic and committed, Hoda Afshar questions the history of gazes and pushes the limits of photography to make it a powerful tool of revelation and resistance.
Born in Tehran in 1983, Hoda Afshar now lives in Melbourne. One of the most innovative visual artists of her generation, she explores topics such as marginality, gender representation, and displacement.
First monographic exhibition of the artist in France, Hoda Afshar. Performer the Invisible unveils its new installation The Fold, which offers a critical rereading of photographs from the museum's collections, taken by the psychiatrist Gaëtan de Clérambault in Morocco between 1918 and 1919 in a colonial context. Through the exploration of this collection and the reappropriation of images, Hoda Afshar questions the way in which the photographic medium, used by the dominant powers, shapes — and sometimes imprisons — the representation of bodies.
The exhibition features another major installation by the artist: Speak the wind, a visual essay on local beliefs and ritual practices related to the winds in the islands of the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran.
Between photographs, drawings, mirrors, videos and sound installations, the exhibition retraces the main axes of the artist's research, and offers a reflection on our relationship to images and the narratives they construct.