Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust is an artist, performer, choreographer, and designer, born in 1994 in France with Iranian, Polish and German roots. His approach revolves around the manufacture of costumes, which he considers in turn as a space of transformation and hybridization, in its capacity to modify our relationship to the body, dance, and language. Clothing thus becomes a means of questioning one’s identity, whether by recalling one’s Iranian origins, creating costumes inspired by Persian works from the Louvre, deconstructing our dominant relationship to other species, and by imagining hybrid creatures on the border of humans and animals. He also developed textile scenographic projects for film sets or choreographic shows but also for his visual artwork. Textile becomes a material where its graphic and illustrative research finally materializes. He will be in residency at la Villa Kujoyama in 2025.