YEKTA

Hossein Yektapour, known professionally as YEKTA, is an Iranian painter and digital artist. His practice develops a distinct visual language across both physical and digital media, bridging traditional painting with work created for the screen. Yektapour has established a presence within the digital art community as an Opepen artist working in association with the creative ecosystem of Jack Butcher. His professional background also includes roles as an art director and an artist working in two dimensional and three dimensional forms, reflecting a versatile and contemporary approach to image making.

The artist’s recent work marks a clear evolution, moving towards a pronounced emotional intensity and surrealism. This newer direction develops from an earlier practice that systematically investigated specific psychological states through distinct thematic series. His recent surreal series on the Tezos platform, Fantastical Adventures, exemplifies this shift with its otherworldly and imaginative compositions. Yektapour frames his creative act as a way to access his past, a process described in his statement, “I am overthink (paint) ing”. This contemplative method now fuels a more direct exploration of inner landscapes.

Yektapour’s art consistently delves into the shadowed recesses of the human psyche, confronting themes of vulnerability, inner decay, and loneliness. His figures often appear distorted or fragmented, caught between states of being in a direct visual expression of difficult psychological territory. He has employed the concept of a soft error, a seemingly minor fault that can alter a system’s entire meaning, as a potent metaphor for the human condition. His practice has been presented by platforms including Suburbs Gallery and featured in publications related to exhibitions such as Soft Error in Berlin.