LEILA HEKMAT

I work with photographs, costume, sculpture, video and text as material for engagement, storytelling and exchange. I construct a stage on which to perform a history and to ask questions about how we exist, how we look and how information is assembled. By deconstructing the stories of various lives into its constituent elements I can then consider the various possibilities for its reconstruction. A new image set on a stage where private imagination is combined with public and political history. Where the relationship of images and words invites the reflection on the double power placed under the same name of image. The mystery, results from the invisible gaps of a context we no longer perceive, inviting projection and participation. As the story commences to unfold it is characterized by pieces that frame it and pieces that lie deeply buried within it.