Anousha Mohtashami was born in Iran in 1998. She lives and works in the Paris region. She is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Her work, published in Censored magazine and exhibited at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Fondation Cartier, explores the intersections between matter, collective memory and social ritual.
Les Corps Diaphanes
Anousha Mohtashami’s graduate thesis, defended in 2023 at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, under the supervision of Mimosa Echard, is a bold reflection on swamps. Entitled Swampcore, re-enchantment in the dark and swampy ethics, this project questions the patriarchal and extractivist dynamics that have historically led to the destruction of wetlands. In opposition to the dominant vision, Anousha Mohtashami invites us to reimagine these territories as places of inter-species symbiosis, counter-power and ecological struggle. She draws links between wetland ecosystems and the theories of queer studies and ecofeminism, notably those of Astrida Neimanis and Donna Haraway, highlighting their potential to challenge dualisms and reorganize social and ecological relations around porosity and interconnectedness.
Les Corps Diaphanes offers a fantastic vision of swamps, freely inspired by visual and textual archives of these changing or disappearing spaces. Through an aesthetically scientific 3D video, a moving cartography reveals the diversity of life forms (plants, animals, bacteria, etc.) that inhabit these environments. The landscapes are dominated by interlacing mycelium, a metaphor for an interconnected network, where exchanges between species are organized in an invisible but vital way.
A fictional narrative, a marsh epic written by Romain Noël, accompanies this visual immersion. This text will be presented in the form of a printed object, accompanied by sculpted works in glass and latex, offering a multi-sensory experience of these marginal territories, but essential to our understanding of our world.
Partenaires
Anousha Mohtashami has been invited to the Maison Flottante in June 2024 for a research and creative residency. She is developing a video installation project entitled Les Corps Diaphanes, co-produced by cneai= and EUR ArTeC.