Le Plateau
Paris

Parisa Babaei, The Point of no Return, 2023 © Parisa Babaei

Parisa Babaei
Is you is, or is you ain’t (my baby)?

The Project Room is the Frac’s new prospective and experimental space, located in the last room of the Plateau. It offers the opportunity to present research, diploma, grant and residency projects to French and foreign artists, preferably from the Île de France region. This reactive and flexible programming is also built in dialogue with the essential structures supporting creation, and particularly young creation, but also art schools and universities in the Paris region or internationally.

Parisa Babaei was born in Teheran, Iran in 1992. She lives and works in Paris (Bobigny and Pantin).

Inspired by her Iranian and French cultures, her work is mainly based on compositions that combine writing in different languages, common and poor materials, and images or objects from popular culture, all of which can be reproduced in completely original ways in a variety of contexts.

Using visual associations and mise en abyme, her installations combine objects, photographs, editions, videos, texts and sound archives, humorously revealing the hidden meaning of a personal political history. The diversity of universes is enriched by analogy or visual correspondences, creating a poetic absurdity that reveals a kind of “social surrealism”.

 

Curator : Maëlle Dault

 

Rendez-vous

 

Opening Project Room

Romain Best

08.11.23, 6–9pm

 

Opening Project Room

Nina Azoulay

10.01.24, 6–9pm