Hamzianpour & Kia is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Elika Hedayat. Focusing on Hedayat’s intimate paintings and a new film, the exhibition shines a neon blacklight on her otherworldly realms and their constant transformation across beings and states of existence. Mutations is the Paris-based artist’s debut solo exhibition in the US.

The small, personable, dense paintings of Hedayat are windows into another world. Bewildered protagonists make up a dreamscape with recurring motifs of biological systems, rhizomatic growths, and interconnected pathways. The paintings’ internally glowing sense of light feel like projections themselves, mental images of a world past or to come, or conjured in response to the current conditions of life on Earth. The implied narrative of Hedayat’s paintings key into her video work almost as frame stills, cinematic instances which hold time expansively in their stillness. Their painted layers and material depth invite the viewer to enter their space with mind and body, into a carefully conjured realm.