Elyas Alavi



15 Artworks by Elyas Alavi

Elyas Alavi is a published poet, curator, and visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, moving image, poetry, and performance. His work examines the complex intersections of race, displacement, gender, religion, and sexuality, addressing hyper-invisibilities and challenging conventional notions of culture and belonging. Alavi’s practice often interrogates histories in the South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region, exploring their entanglements with globalization, settler colonialism, and the mobility and displacement of Black and Brown bodies.

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‘It turns into a new language’: Saaro Umar in conversation with Elyas Alavi

And once you’ve gone, you can’t come back anymore. The almost-end of an exchange that comes close to passages between James Baldwin’s David and Giovanni; here between the voice of Magaye Niang and Marène Niang, as she glides naked across thick Alaskan snow, breasts upwards, the foreground close to the colour of the sky, she replies, I think I’ve already heard this song.

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