Galerie Christophe Gaillard Paris, Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian
15/05/2025
VERNISSAGE / PARIS - JEUDI 15 MAI, 17-21h
TIRDAD HASHEMI, BUTCHERED BODIES - Mainspace - 15.05 - 21.06.2025
SOUFIA ERFANIAN, LIES THAT BLED BLUE - Frontspace - 15.05 - 21.06.2025
VERNISSAGE & LIVE PERFORMANCE DE ZHINA ARDALAN AKA XEEN LE 15 MAI, 17-21h
OPENING & LIVE PERFORMANCE BY ZHINA ARDALAN AKA XEEN: ON MAY 15, 5-9 PM
Portrait de / of Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian. © Photo : Parisa Shirvani, Lens, 2025.
Galerie Christophe Gaillard is pleased to present, for the first time within its walls, the work of Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian, two Iranian artists currently in residence at the Pinault Collection in Lens. These two exhibitions are the result of their first months of research and creation during the residency, offering an intimate and poignant perspective on experiences of transformation, isolation, and memory.
Soufia Erfanian
Lies That Bled Blue
Frontspace, 15.05 - 21.06.2025
PARIS
5 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
Phone : +33 (0)1 42 78 49 16
Mail: contact@galerie-gaillard.com
www.galeriegaillard.com
EN CE MOMENT / BRUSSELS - CURRENTLY / BRUSSELS
TANGIBLE / INTANGIBLE, exposition collective
= > 28.06.2025
BRUSSELS
Quai du commerce 50 Handelskaai, 1000 Brussels
Phone : +32 474 851 640
Mail: brussels@galerie-gaillard.com
TIRDAD HASHEMI, BUTCHERED BODIES - Mainspace - 15.05 - 21.06.2025
SOUFIA ERFANIAN, LIES THAT BLED BLUE - Frontspace - 15.05 - 21.06.2025
VERNISSAGE & LIVE PERFORMANCE DE ZHINA ARDALAN AKA XEEN LE 15 MAI, 17-21h
OPENING & LIVE PERFORMANCE BY ZHINA ARDALAN AKA XEEN: ON MAY 15, 5-9 PM
Portrait de / of Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian. © Photo : Parisa Shirvani, Lens, 2025.
Galerie Christophe Gaillard is pleased to present, for the first time within its walls, the work of Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian, two Iranian artists currently in residence at the Pinault Collection in Lens. These two exhibitions are the result of their first months of research and creation during the residency, offering an intimate and poignant perspective on experiences of transformation, isolation, and memory.
Tirdad Hashemi takes over the main gallery space with Butchered Bodies, a series of paintings in which trans bodies appear in a suspended state—between becoming and dissolution. Marked by solitude, desire, and resistance, these bodies are neither frozen nor victimized, but are entities in flux, asserting their presence through an existence that oscillates between visibility and erasure. Hashemi explores isolation not as absence, but as a space of identity construction, where the self breaks and regenerates itself continuously, where flesh speaks without permission and demands to exist.
(...) Extract from the text written by Élisabeth Lebovici.Soufia Erfanian
Lies That Bled Blue
Frontspace, 15.05 - 21.06.2025
Based in Berlin and working between Tehran, Paris, and Berlin, Soufia Erfanian’s artistic practice is rooted in painting and drawing. Engaging deeply with personal and societal themes, her work examines the intersections of systemic oppression and self-expression—particularly in relation to marginalized bodies. Shaped by experiences of displacement and the negotiation of identity beyond normative frameworks, she explores how relational structures transform during times of rupture and redefinition, challenging conventional perceptions of gender, desire, and belonging while embracing fluidity as a site of resistance...
PARIS
5 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
Phone : +33 (0)1 42 78 49 16
Mail: contact@galerie-gaillard.com
www.galeriegaillard.com
EN CE MOMENT / BRUSSELS - CURRENTLY / BRUSSELS
TANGIBLE / INTANGIBLE, exposition collective
= > 28.06.2025
BRUSSELS
Quai du commerce 50 Handelskaai, 1000 Brussels
Phone : +32 474 851 640
Mail: brussels@galerie-gaillard.com