Born in Tehran in 1986 and based in France since 2014, Yosra Mojtahedi develops a body of work at the intersection of drawing, sculpture, and visual and sound installation. Coming from a cultural context in which the body and its representation remain subject to numerous restrictions, she has developed a sensual and multisensory language that at times verges on the erotic.

Drawing on ritualistic and shamanic imagery, Yosra Mojtahedi creates hybrid environments where organic, mineral and vegetal forms appear animated by the same vital energy. Her sculptures take the form of artefacts or ritual bodies, imbued with transformative forces capable of symbolically healing or awakening buried memories. Blurring the boundaries between the living and the inert, the natural and the artificial, the body and the machine, her installations—sometimes conceived as “fountain-bodies” or “human-machines”—explore the place of the body, particularly the female body, within the social and cultural structures that surround it. Her work thus outlines a vision of the world in which human and non-human, science and occultism, technology and spirituality no longer stand in opposition, but form part of the same continuum.

Black occupies a central place in her practice. More than a colour, it appears as a primordial and all-encompassing material—an entity that connects us all. Through a dialogue between shadow and light reminiscent of Persian architecture, her work traces paths of light through darkness, as a metaphor for a spiritual journey.

A graduate of Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in 2020, Yosra Mojtahedi has quickly gained recognition through a number of awards, including the Art Contest Prize at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (2026), the Fonds de Dotation Interconstruction – Carré sur Seine Prize (2026), the Fondation François Schneider Contemporary Talents Prize (2024), the Wicar Prize (2022), and the ADAGP Revelation Prize for Digital and Video Art (2020).

Her work has been presented in several solo exhibitions, notably at Abbaye de Maubuisson (2026), Espace Monte-Cristo – Villa Datris in Paris (2026), the Cité internationale des arts in Paris (2025), and the Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme in Aix-en-Provence (2024). It has also been featured in group exhibitions at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (2026), Abbaye de Maubuisson (2025), Fondation Villa Datris (2025), Fondation François Schneider (2025), and La Condition Publique in Roubaix (2025).