For ten years, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust has made his impossible journey to Iran the subject of a sensitive exploration. He gathers fragments of a heritage to be reinvented from museums, archives, and family memories, in order to tell stories other than his own. That of his father, born in Rasht, uprooted following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and who came to France; that of an aunt who remained in Iran; that of a diaspora scattered as far as Toronto; and finally, that of a stolen heritage.
Patiently, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust weaves, sews, draws, assembles, and recomposes these narratives into images, which today make up a corpus of some fifty works. For his first solo exhibition in Paris, he presents this intimate geography at ICI, accompanied by unseen pieces, in a shimmering and living scenography inspired by his performative practice.