Two duos appear, draped in colors that evoke fragments of flags as much as the plumage of rare birds. Their bodies are transformed beneath the crumpled fabric. These hybrid figures seek to communicate without language. A single sound, “O,” circulates between them: a call, a hesitation, a whisper, or a cry. Through this single phoneme, the performers traverse an infinity of emotions, as if language were reduced to its most naked essence. In space, bodies brush against each other, respond to each other, challenge each other. They borrow from the rituals of life, from those animal dances where we expose ourselves in order to better encounter the other. The colors deployed become signals, invitations, attempts to appear differently. Flags Parade thus imagines a humanity camouflaged in a burst of colors, not to disappear, but to reinvent its ways of showing itself, listening to each other, and forming a community. A final parade, simple and fragile, where gesture, sound, and matter seek to redraw our way of being together. The costumes from the performance are on display during the exhibition.
Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust
Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust is a French-Iranian-German-Polish artist. He develops a cross-disciplinary practice combining visual arts, textiles, performance, and choreography. His works—patchworks, kilts, felt pieces, costumes—explore notions of exile, memory, and identity through living, moving textiles, vectors of transformation. The costume becomes a place of metamorphosis, where bodies are transformed to invent new narratives. Inspired by Persian arts, family archives, and archaeological objects, he recomposes a fragmented memory and invents fantastical landscapes populated by hybrid entities.