Love Is in the Air, patchwork of fabrics, 210 x 210 cm, 2019. Photo: Wolfgang Moroder
Artist, performer and designer, Darius Dolatyari has developed a language that blends pictorial expression with textile materiality. His patchworks hang on the wall like tapestries and tell stories with a unique graphic signature that unites a Picassoan deconstruction of form with the sinuosity and elegance of Matisse. The work of the young French artist, originally from Iran, grafts together the tension of reconstructing the (severed) links of his own past and his country of origin, running in parallel with an interest in Greek culture and mythology.
Even the costumes of his performances are often inspired by his Iranian origins, becoming a bridge with a culture inherited but not experienced directly. He has a performative practice in which the costume plays a major role: the dress, as a sculptural envelope, gives the performer a way to re-invent himself and move differently in space, the real agent of the choreography, which crosses the personal and intimate stories of the performers, touching identity, body and gender issues.
I Become Them, performance, Spazio K, Prato, 2021.
Photo: Vanni Bassetti
Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Wearing the Dead, costume and performance, 2019. Photo: Romy Berger
Darius Robin Dolatyari (Chambery en Savoie 1994 (FR), lives and works in Brussels.
Artist, performer and designer, after studying Fashion Design at École Duperré, Graphic Design at École Estienne in Paris and Art at the University of Lille, he studied dance, performance and choreography at ISAC - Institut Supérieur des Arts et Choregraphies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. In 2017 and 2019 he was artist in residency at Lottozero. Since 2019 he runs an independent art space called La Cave, based in Brussels.
He has recently had exhibitions and performances at Centrale Fies, (Trento, Italy, 2020); In Process Forest (Brussels, 2021); Shack Gallery (Brussels, 2021); Villa Noailles (Hyères, France, 2021).
