Chalisée Naamani creates “image dresses” from visual materials she collects on her phone. Drawn from her daily life—memories of joyful or painful moments, both intimate and public—as well as extracted from the algorithm-driven streams of content on social media and the internet, these images are re-woven by the artist into her works.

In her exhibition Octogone, she weaves a narrative that echoes memories of ancient gymnasiums and graffiti-tagged walls in anonymous Iranian spaces—where the boundaries between public and private realms blur, and the way we engage with circulating images is brought into question.

Alongside political science researcher Parand Danesh and exhibition curator Horya Makhlouf, the artist will continue to unravel the threads woven into Octogone, discussing the political power of certain iconographies and the transmission of histories through their visual representations.

• The discussion will be held in French with no subtitles. It will also be preceded by a guided tour of the Octogone exhibition at 5pm with Chalisée Naamani and Horya Makhlouf. Tickets for the tour are very limited ; If the tour sells out, only tickets for the discussion will be available.
• The ticket for this event also grants access to the exhibitions.