THE ARTIST OF TRAVELING DEMONS
Malekeh Nayiny’s series Traveling Demons explores the strata of identity and memory through the prism of the imaginary. Nayiny often relies on personal archives and reworked images to create poetic and sometimes surreal compositions. In this series, Naviny summons masked figures, hybrid beings whose human faces give way to strange creatures or enigmatic patterns. These demons, far from being scary, resemble interieur allegories, travelling companions who embody invisible doubts, memories, latent desires. The transformation of these entities over time translates a wider reflection on the evolution of our own ghosts. Initially perceived as grotesque and inoffensive in childhood, they become vague and worrying shadows in adulthood, before being reinterpreted in a more fantastical, almost burlesque light.
