Elyas Alavi

Poet and visual artist with a multidisciplinary practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, moving image, poetry, and performance. His work often examines the complex intersections of race, displacement, gender, religion, and sexuality, addressing hyper invisibilities and challenging received notions of culture and belonging. More specifically, his work complicates histories in the South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region and explores the links between the globalized condition, colonialism, and the implications for the mobility and displacement of Black and Brown bodies.