Neda Razavipour's 'Du corps à l'âme' at Salon/H, Paris

Neda Razavipour's exhibition 'Du corps à l'âme' runs until October 28, 2023, at Salon/H in Paris. The show continues her work begun in 2012 in Tehran, featuring her photographic series 'L'Ange écorché' (2007-09), where she poses nude with hand-painted angel wings from Istanbul. The photographs, printed on textured Fine Art paper, reference Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty's 1746 anatomical engraving, Victor Hugo's poem 'La Fin de Satan', and the hadith 'Paradise is under the feet of mothers'. New works include 'L'Espace entre deux' (2023), a dress embedded with debris, and 'Edge of Chaos' (2023), boxed sculptures made from remnants of past performances where the artist broke and cared for dishes. Razavipour explores the coexistence of order and chaos, inspired by the concept of 'antifragility' encountered during a 2012 residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. She reflects on Iranian youth's extreme approach to life, stating 'When everything goes wrong, you must balance in chaos.' Though not explicitly political, she acknowledges that in a totalitarian country, everything said or unsaid is political. The exhibition is accompanied by a booklet with text by Thierry Grillet.