Performance presented at Art Even Nönude, June 2025, Paris

In this visual and embodied performance, Parya Vatankhah evokes a union between nature and the female body through a sculptural costume she created herself: a large, vivid red flower with a golden center, made from recycled paper and black plastic trash bags. This delicate, synthetic material speaks of a tension between natural beauty and human-caused pollution.

Dressed in black, the artist wears the flower as an extension of her body—a visible, almost living organ. During the performance, she slowly tears the flower apart, piece by piece, offering fragments to the audience. This act of sharing transforms the flower into a ritual object, almost sacred. To give a piece of this fragile, discarded-yet-reclaimed material becomes a gesture of transmission—a poetic and political gift.Blending recycled materials, ecofeminist concerns, and performative presence, this work explores how body, nature, and resistance may interlace in a damaged world still capable of beauty and connection.