MORVARID K
Visual artist and performer, Morvarid K was born in Tehran in 1982 and although she left Iran relatively early, her attachment to the Iranian identity is the foundation of her relationship to the world and of her artistic sensitivity.
Through the manipulation of photographic material, her work questions our relation to the world, the transformative memory, and the in-between. The photographic medium is the starting point, it anchors her work in reality, while the superposition and transformation techniques bring the additional expressions photography couldn’t capture. The print becomes a material, a stage in the creative process, before any gesture or performative experience complete the work. The definition Laurent Derobert, existential mathematician, gives to the word "lack" sits at the heart of her artistic practice: infinite presence of absence.
Morvarid lives and works in Bordeaux, France and Berlin, Germany.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE GALLERY
SOLO SHOW
2023
”This Too Shall Pass”, Bigaignon, Paris
2022
”Traces”, Vieille Eglise, Mérignac, France
2018
”Once Upon a Time”, Galerie Fisheye, Paris, France
”Cold Lace”, Green Hill gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015
”Blue Sky”, Etemad gallery, Téhéran, Iran
2013
”Heart Dish”, Yavuz gallery, Singapore
”L’effacement”, Wonderwall gallery, Delhi, India
GROUP SHOW
2023
”Épreuves de la Matière”, BNF, Paris, France
”L’image en Creux”, 100ECS, Paris, France
Unbound by Unseen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022
FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine Meca, Bordeaux, France
”Radical Perspectives”, Bigaignon, Paris
Paris Photo, Paris, France
2021
”Promenades Photographiques”, Vendome, France
2019
Festival Circulation(s), Paris, France
Paris Photo, Curiosa, Paris, France
Unseen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
MIA art fair, Milan, Italy
2018
Galerie Folia, Paris, France
2015
Les Rencontres d’Arles, CDA gallery, France
Photo Doc, Paris (Prix du Deuxième Regard), France
New Delhi Art Fair, India
Craft Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2014
Galerie Berlin-Baku, Berlin, Germany
Apeejay Arts complex, Delhi, India
Quad/Format, Derby, United Kingdom
2013
Abu Dhabi Art Fair, United Arad Emirates
Galerie Salwa Zeidan, Abu Dhabi, United Arad Emirates
Scope Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
2011
Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
PERFORMANCES
2023
100ECS, Paris. The Hours
2022
Vieille Eglise, Bordeaux. Traces with Yuko Kaseki
2020
Circulation(s) Festival, Paris. Trace with Yuko Kaseki & Sherwood Chen
2018
Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin. Cassures Sublimées with Yuko Kaseki & Sherwood Chen
Green Hill gallery, Berlin. Cold Lace with Yuko Kaseki
2017
Dock 11, Berlin. E-rase M E-go (9 hours) with Yuko Kaseki, Lisa Stertz & Sajan Mani
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Méca, France
CNAP, Paris, France
BNF, Paris, France
