Between 2002 and 2003, Ettehad, during his travels across Iran, recorded videos of domes, fountains, tile-work, weavings, colorful Iranian fabrics, inscriptions, and ancient historical texts. These images were eventually placed...

MAYBE THE NEXT TIME a video-art by Ali Ettehad 2024

Digital painting, digital print of textile “Whence doth the good commence? Where lays the border separating the observer I and the subject of Evil? Till when will thine celestial headsprings...

Digital painting, Photo Print, 2011   Iranian plateau is warm and dry, with scalding hot, waterless, barren deserts, very few seasonal rainfall and lots of long-term droughts. Its rivers flow...

Digital painting, print on textile, 2012 - 2020 Old Iranian miniatures, are often filled with men and women and horses; Women, men and horses are side by side, facing each...

“Degeneration” is a video-art that is visually based on paintings from the Herat school, Tabriz school and paintings by Mohammad Siah Qalam. The idea of the work is based on...

A sound-Installationby Ali Ettehad2016 Sounds can change a place. Sounds can turn an old, static pool into the center of the world. "I Am What I Am" is the name...

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There are several rows of “small trees in pots” on the stage. The light on some of the trees shines more and the trees in...

A video-art piece from “The Journey” series  "In The Looking Glass" is a video-art about the unity of the object with its own image in the mirror; Humanity's long-standing and perhaps...

A video-art piece from "The Journey" series The video-art "Seven Journeys of Initiation" depicts the human effort to understand the mandala and shows the boundary between the artificial reality of...

The Fountain of Sun (A monument in praise of Sun) by Ali Ettehad White marmarait, stone, digital photo print, electronic machinery and water 81x44x44 cm executed 2021-20221/1 + 1 AP...

“Do you remember?” It was the title of a video-installation that was installed for three years in the public space of Tehroon Café (Tehran, Iran).

“The Last verses of the poem” is a video-installation about humans’ relationship with nature and more than that with themselves

he video-art piece “Enso” is about the relationship between the sacred matter and nature. About the life cycles through which we perceive the world around us and ultimately create humanity...

“The words” is about a spiritual journey. It is talking about an unconscious process; an institutional quest.

The fourth installation was designed based on a poem by Nima Yoshij. Nima is the founder of modern Persian poetry.

1436 hours and 23 minutes is a Science fiction movie occurring somewhere in the unknown future.

The third part of this installation was dedicated to a poem by Ahmad Shamlou.

No Name is the name of an installation which is made of a wooden box. The surface of the box is covered by sands; but there can be heard a...