Yosra Mojtahedi — Abbaye de Maubuisson
In a sequence that unfolds like an enveloping passage, Yosra Mojtahedi’s exhibition Inkarna at the Abbaye de Maubuisson draws on a dense and layered imagination to create a didactic immersion — one that reconnects viewers to the essence of the senses while suggesting a transformation of the self.
Conceived both as a matrix and as a binding force between the elements of the world, “Inkarna” gives form to what exceeds us — what shapes us as much as what we might use to defend ourselves. It speaks first to those most at risk: the uprooted, the diminished, the marginalized. For them, Mojtahedi reinvents a ground, weighted with totemic forms that stand like sentinels, linking lands and beings, bodies and their instruments of resistance.
Comprising sculptures, installations and a single painting, the exhibition relies on contrasts of materials and color to assert a total visual language that holds the viewer’s attention. The abbey’s interior becomes a coherent landscape in which, across five rooms, perception shifts and experience is offered new ways of being read. Beneath heavy chains, textiles and wood seem to escape gravity; behind the blackness of charcoal, white stone flashes with vitality, turning the abbey itself into an organic extension of the installation.
Within a distinctive universe that merges the organic with the mineral, and the artifact with its eventual reduction to dust, Mojtahedi erects with striking assurance structures that are at once grounded and suspended. These abstract, anthropomorphic monuments conceal, within their labyrinth of symbols, a dizzying range of interpretations.
The constant throughout is the intensity of the encounters she orchestrates, and the polysemic richness of a visual vocabulary that binds softness to roughness, pain to pleasure, and violence to its resolution.
Yosra Mojtahedi, Inkarna: The Metamorphoses of the Sacred, April 12–August 30, 2026, Abbaye de Maubuisson, Avenue Richard de Tour, 95310 Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône
