NON DATE
Non Daté challenges and questions the act of memory, war, destruction, and the borders between the present and the past. It is intentionally named this way because the themes explored are transversal, universal, and repetitive. The work reflects Love, Peace, but also War and the Absence of a loved one. The writings of Mahvash Shafiei are deeply rooted in her own story: from her birth in Iran to her exile, facing extreme violence, recurrent injustices, and the increasingly severe restrictions imposed by local authorities in Iran in recent years. Her writings echo the paintings of Iris Arnaud, dreamlike, luminous, and colorful abstract landscapes that express the chaos of the world through contrasting colors and materials. At times optimistic, at times melancholic, the ethereal compositions in this exhibition evoke an inner journey, a personal path between two parallel and opposing worlds: that of war and hope, love and loss, life and death. At the crossroads between dream and reality, painting and poetry, the lyrical and romantic compositions of this exhibition are a meeting place for diverse and sometimes complex universes, but always full of hope. They protest against Forgetting and, in doing so, fight against the harmful repetition of History—such as War, Violence, and Injustice.
Mediatheque de Lille
Lille, France
(SEPT. 2024)






















