ELHAM ETEMADI

I was born in Shiraz / Iran in 1983. I live and work in Strasbourg, France. I am a doctorate in visual art at the University of Strasbourg in 2018. I graduated from the University of Art of Tehran at the Bac + 4 levels, then I graduated from the Association of Draftsmen of Iran in 2007. I ranked 1st in the national competition admission to Bac +6, and for the suite, I graduated Bac +6 painting (Master), University of Art Tehran. The second Master in 2011 by the University of Strasbourg in France. I have participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Europe and Asia since 2005 I Auction in Dubai since 2015. I exhibited in 2017 at ST'ART fair contemporary art Strasbourg, I first prize of the "house of the staff" Award for the best work of the visitor and the jury, "children's memories."

The toy appears in almost every one of my pictorial puzzles! It is the recurring element, the borrowed index of nostalgia, that combines in many different forms in virtually all my compositions. The toy sometimes acts as a common thread, sometimes as an indispensable element, even if it is more or less hidden. It metamorphoses, imposes itself, shows the tip of its nose, slowly fades out according to a formula constantly renewed that I do not bridle! I create stories, fluff (bird, bear, cat ...) become the actors, the toys often make the scene: walls of citadels cubes, imaginary journey with the wooden train, they come alive ... Links subtle betray an underlying story and a chain composition. This internal circulation on the canvas, I am aware, is my story in the manner of a tale revisited with the lighting of the contemporary world, but I do not reveal it to the viewer. I want him to be free to think, to see, to imagine ...