Elyas Alavi

Elyas Alavi is a visual artists and poet based in Adelaide. Born in the Daikundi province of Afghanistan, he has published three poetry books “I’m a daydreamer wolf” published in 2008 in Tehran (5th edition in 2016), followed by “Some wounds” in 2012 in Kabul and “Hodood” in 2015 in Tehran. He graduated from a Master of Visual Arts in 2016 at the University of South Australia and has exhibited internationally. Alavi visits many issues in his works, but mainly memory, migration, displacement, exile and the human nature.