About Dam and Hofit About Dam and Hofit is a short animation about the forbidden friendship between Dam, the tip of Mount Damavand in Iran, and Hofit, an...

“What struck me was the fact that, even in the 21st century, women still have to fight for their rights, and their resistance can take many forms and manifest in different spaces.”

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Born in Tehran, Leila Zelli (she/her) holds an MFA (2020) and a BFA (2016) in Visual and Media Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She is interested in the relationship we have with ideas of “others” and “elsewhere,” and more specifically within this geopolitical space referred to by the questionable term “Middle … Continued

Born in Tehran (Iran), Leila Zelli lives and works in Montréal. She holds an MFA (2020) and a BFA (2016) in Visual and Media Arts from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Zelli is interested in the relationship that we have with the ideas of “others” and “elsewhere” and more...

“Leila Zelli, artiste visuelle née à Téhéran et basée à Montréal. Son travail explore les relations avec l’« Autre » et les idées d’« ailleurs ». Elle crée des installations in situ utilisant des images, vidéos et textes glanés sur internet, suscitant des réflexions sur l’état du monde. “Leila Zelli, a visual artist born in Tehran and based in Montreal. Her work explores relationships with the ‘Other’ and ideas of ‘elsewhere. She creates site-specific installations using images, videos, and texts gathered from the internet, provoking reflections on the state of the world.

Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present Leila Zelli's first solo exhibition at the gallery entitled " Un chant peut traverser l'océan " [" A C hant Can Cross the Ocean "] Since the waves of worldwide demonstrations for Iran, between solidarity marches and the sharing of video excerpts...