Ehsan Shayanfard
Solo works 2022 - 2024
Ehsan Shayanfard
Solo works 2022 - 2024
Photos by:
Geoffrey Badel, Ali Zamani, Elien Vervaet,
Hans Peter Diop Ibaghino,
Bouger mes bras et mes jambes | (working title)
Une élégie pour le corps, les objets et le texte
Depuis que je suis ici, j'ai lu des lettres d'artistes partis à l'étranger à leurs amis.
Il y a quelque temps, j'ai lu une lettre d’un écrivain iranien Gholamhossein Saadi,
à son amoureuse. ça a été comme si je l'avais écrite moi-même :
خوشگلم، اینجوریست دیگر، هیچکس نیست. نیست و نیست
تمام شبها مردهها به خوابم میآیند
آب زیاد میخورم، چارهای ندارم
Ma belle, c'est comme ça, il n'y a personne.
Des morts viennent dans mes rêves toutes les nuits.
Je bois beaucoup d'eau, je n'ai pas le choix.
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Produced in ICI-CCN Montpellier
In the frame of the program Master EXERCE
Presented in:
Atelier Buffard, ICI-CCN Montpellier, Mai 2024
Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, 5th Septembre 2024
While we're here, they're already dead | (working title)
for performer, ghosts, objects, audience, and space
-While we're here, they're already dead- consists of five main materials: a light table, a camera, several artificial hands, and objects. Each of these materials comes from different places. Some are related to my life in the last few months and some are rooted in the past. In working with these materials, I tried to understand how I could find my dramaturgy for this composition. How are images related to bodies and how is the stage a place to summon the absent? How can -self- and -otherness- manifest in a solo? how does the narrative move forward through objects that are clear and ambiguous at the same time?
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Produced in ICI-CCN Montpellier
In the frame of the program Master EXERCE
Presented in:
Studio Bagouet, ICI-CCN Montpellie, June 2023
Theater im Kunstquartier, University Mozarteum, June 2024, Salzburg
May I show you?
A self-portrait
The starting point of this piece began a few years ago. When many different incidents, images, and events began to penetrate my mind. Some stayed, some got transformed and some made changes in me. All these incidents, images, and events, in addition to their traces in me, became “May I Show You?”.
On the one hand, the piece is a self-portrait, but it is not wholly personal due to all those things that made me make it, therefore it’s not all about me, but about my home, my neighborhood, my city, my country, and the world I’m living in.
The piece is a composition made by assembling all those events, images, incidents, and their traces in a new context, and presumably, this assemblage gets shaped differently each time it’s going to be re-composed.
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Production: Selon L’heure Cie. Paris
Executive production: Latitudes Prod, Lille
Coproduction: Théâtre Antigone, Courtrai,
This performance has been développed in the frame of Mentorat, support for emerging artists from Iran by Selon l’Heure Cie, August 2022
Presented in:
Leave No One Behind #3, Theater Antigone, Kortrijk
Y-E-S Fest #2, Uferstudios, Berlin
Moussem Cities 2023, KAI Studios, Brussels