Désiré Moheb-Zandi & Marion Flament
Asia Now Art Fair, Monnaie de Paris, 2025
At the heart of the Monnaie de Paris, two installations cometogether in a shared setup, forming an immersive landscape where geology,textiles, and economic memory meet. This two-voiced work brings together visualartist Marion Flament and textile artist Désiré Moheb-Zandi around a commonreflection on cycles of transformation — from earth to fiber, from barter tomoney, from object to trace.
In the upper part of the installation, Désiré Moheb-Zandi’swork unfolds as a wall weaving made of hemp grown through regenerativeagriculture in Le Marais (91.530 Le Marais), wool spun by hand in Anatolia,natural plant-dyed fibers, and recycled yarns from the Italian spinning millVimar 1991. The piece is inspired by the symbolic vocabulary of Turkish kilimsand places textile know-how in a contemporary dynamic of cross-bordercollaboration and ecological awareness. Her artistic approach — between painting,sculpture, and tapestry — reveals a sensitive and layered material, where fiberbecomes a carrier of memory and cultural transmission.
At the foot of the weaving, Marion Flament installs amineral composition made of raw earth and red stones, coming from the same soilused to grow the hemp. This reconstructed soil takes the shape of a pile or asmall mound, inside which metal pieces are hidden — some raw, others enameled.This gesture creates a kind of contemporary treasure hunt, questioning thesymbolic foundations of value: barter, the materiality of coins, the movementof money along the Silk Road. The installation works like a fictionalarchaeology, in which the earth becomes an archive, revealing fragments of itshistory to the visitor.
This spatial diptych opens a formal and conceptual dialogue:
• The hanging textile is a vertical stratigraphy of knowledge — skills,gestures, stories — passed down from generation to generation.
• The installation on the ground embodies a horizontal memory, rooted in thematerial world, in the slow accumulation of human and economic values.
Between the woven surface and the earth’s crust, the twoartists offer a broader reading of money — no longer only economic, but alsoecosystemic, anthropological, and symbolic. They remind us that all value,sooner or later, takes root in the ground.
Desire Moheb Zandi
Earth Remembers, 2025
190 x 170 x 17 cm
Jute, hemp ( naturally dyed, france ), cotton, will (botanically dyed, turkey ), threads ( up-cycled Italy ), rope, cord, andmounted on canvas
Marion Flament
Matter of Exchange, 2025
3 x 2 m
Raw, fired and glazed earth from 91530 Le Marais
