Abbas Zahedi

Abbas Zahedi

BornNationalityBased In
1984BritishLondon
Biography

Abbas Zahedi creates elegiac ruminations that are intrinsically linked to questions of diasporic agency and marginality, biopower, and surveillance capitalism. Communicated through an enduring poeticism and a distinctly multidisciplinary approach, Zahedi’s work highlights state violence and memorialises its victims. In Zahedi’s 2019 work, Dwelling: In This Space We Grieve, he used a drinks fridge, glowing incandescent green and complete with a surface transducer to transmit touch into sound, to commemorate his friend and fellow artist Khadija Saye, who died in the Grenfell Tower Fire of 2017. Initial reports alleged that the blaze was solely a result of a faulty fridge, obfuscating the institutional negligence and unsafe cladding which caused the fire to spread. The theme of fire seeps into How To Make A How From A Why? (2020), which contains a sprinkler system filled with rose water, a liquid that serves as a libation in Iranian culture and is poured on a grave to commemorate a death. In his Police Book Exchange project (2021-), the artist asks participants to donate books they would like the police to read and requests that the police do the same in response, a distinct indictment of police brutality and state complicity. ...

Selected Artworks
Police Book Exchange (Goldsmiths CCA)
Abbas Zahedi
Police Book Exchange (Goldsmiths CCA), 2022
Life Support (Part 1) Left Assemblage
Abbas Zahedi
Life Support (Part 1) Left Assemblage, 2025
210 x 110cm
Life Support (Part 1) Center Left Assemblage
Abbas Zahedi
Life Support (Part 1) Center Left Assemblage, 2025
45 x 32cm
Life Support(Part 1) Center Right Assemblage
Abbas Zahedi
Life Support(Part 1) Center Right Assemblage, 2025
195 x 30cm
Life Support (Part 1) Right Assemblage
Abbas Zahedi
Life Support (Part 1) Right Assemblage, 2025
175 x 30cm
Life support part 2: Whisperphone
Abbas Zahedi
Life support part 2: Whisperphone, 2025
220 x 250 x 150cm
Life support part 3: Firebells
Abbas Zahedi
Life support part 3: Firebells, 2025
60 x 150 x 80cm
Weeping Diwani
Abbas Zahedi
Weeping Diwani, 2020
68.5 x 45 x 3.8cm
Delete the Beans (Deadweight)
Abbas Zahedi
Delete the Beans (Deadweight), 2022
8.5 x 5 x 5cm
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