Melika Shafahi (b.1984, Tehran) works and lives between Tehran & Paris. She received her BA in Photography (Tehran University of Art, 2007), another in Fine Arts and Plastic (École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier, 2010) and an MA in Fine Arts (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 2012). She works with photography, videos & installations. She explores complex social themes with a bold and unique aesthetics that reflects the paradoxes and hybridity of contemporary Iranian life. Since graduation she has meticulously staged colorful theatrical, Renaissance-looking compositions with references to diverse cultures. In her later works she starts blurring the boundaries between the strongly contrasting themes she used to portray by focusing on a globalized culture.