Ahmad Reshad’s practice spans scenography and visual art. A post-master graduate of Pavillon Bosio – Art & Scenography, he was an artist-in-residence at the Ateliers du Quai Antoine Ier between 2024 and 2025, supported by the Department of Cultural Affairs of the Principality of Monaco, and is currently an artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, in partnership with Pavillon Bosio.
Reshad has collaborated on numerous set designs for exhibitions or scenographic projects with a diverse range of cultural and artistic institutions, including the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (NMNM), Art Monte-Carlo, the Théâtre Princesse Grace, the Stade Louis II, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, the Julia Stoschek Foundation, the International Glass and Visual Arts Research Centre (CIRVA), the Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitanie (MRAC), the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain de Nice (MAMAC), and the Musées de Menton.
His personal artistic practice—encompassing installation, photography, sound, video, and kinetic sculpture—interrogates the history, power dynamics, and geopolitics of his native Afghanistan. Central to this research is the ever-changing imagery of Afghan flags. He reflects: “What interests me is not their symbolic weight, but their presence as fragile markers—a precarious sign of belonging, endlessly redrawn and instrumentalized by political upheavals. The flag does not appear as a figure of unity, but as an unstable material, carrying ruptures and forgetfulness.”
Through this lens, Reshad exposes the fragility of life and history in a nation marked by over fifty years of struggle. His works have been exhibited in various contexts, including OVNi 2024 — Festival International d’Art Vidéo and the 16th Biennale de Mulhouse.
Committed to preserving endangered aspects of Afghan cultural heritage, Reshad has also reconstructed the traditional “Afghan Box Camera”—a portable black box once used for identity photographs in his childhood. Operating as a miniature darkroom, this nearly extinct tool enables instant image development while standing as a fragile emblem of memory, loss, and resilience.