Yosra Mojtahedi
Yosra Mojtahedi is a visual artist born in 1986 in Tehran, Iran. She is a graduate of the Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts —where she conducts research at the intersection of art, anthropology, and technology.
Flowers, stones, umbilical cords, and organs make up a graphic and sculptural repertoire. On the surface: spasms and contractions distort the black skin made of ceramic and silicone. The organ-robots are designed according to the principles of soft robotics in collaboration with the Defrost laboratory (INRIA), which specializes in medical deformable robotics, and Stefan Escaida Navarro, a researcher in soft robotics.
Like Donna Haraway in her Cyborg Manifesto, Yosra Mojtahedi’s work blurs the boundaries between human and animal, organism and machine, man and woman, the living and the inanimate. The organic plasticity that characterizes her work suggests both the mutation of plants and the metabolism of bodies, illustrating the symbiotic power of life. While her installations may at first glance appear cold and inhospitable, what Yosra Mojtahedi offers us is indeed the utopia of a society freed from the alienation of bodies and binary ontological distinctions, and reconciled with its environment.
Winner of the ADAGP Digital Art – Video Art Discovery Award in 2020 and the François Schneider Foundation’s Contemporary Talent Award in 2024, she is also a finalist for the 2025 Prix Carré sur Seine. She exhibits regularly in France and internationally and is currently in residence at the Fiminco Foundation until the summer of 2026.
