This monographic catalog looks back over the first 15 years of work by Iranian artist Elika Hedayat through more than 110 reproductions. Two of these are in 1:1 scale, and a detailed set compares the dimensions of the works in relation to each other.

In her work, Elika Hedayat often uses testimonies and experimental documentaries set in a dreamlike, imaginary world. Her stories are contemporary and her characters real. Her work as a whole revisits historical references, transferring them to the terrain of personal experience, mainly using the diverse possibilities of her repertoire as a narrative document and a tool for recovering memory. Reality, memory and the imaginary interpenetrate in a personal narrative in different forms: drawings, videos, documentary, painting and performance.

Published for Elika Hedayat’s exhibition “Les Dépossédés” at the Maison des Arts de Malakoff in 2023.