Police Book Exchange (Goldsmiths CCA)

Abbas Zahedi

Police Book Exchange (Goldsmiths CCA), 2022Price on Request
Details
MaterialGalleryLocation
a collection of donated books; a three shelf double sided book trolley; an a4 inkjet print and clipboardEhrlich SteinbergLos Angeles
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary artwork depicts a functional, mobile book cart in a bold blue color. The simple, geometric forms and clean lines create a visually striking composition. The cart holds a collection of books and magazines, suggesting themes of knowledge, information, and accessibility. The industrial materials and utilitarian design speak to the artist's focus on everyday objects and their transformation into art. This piece likely aims to challenge conventional notions of what qualifies as art, while also exploring the relationships between form, function, and artistic expression. ...

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Abbas Zahedi
Artist
Abbas Zahedi
B.1984, British

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. ...

Abbas Zahedi: Artworks
Police Book Exchange (Goldsmiths CCA)
Abbas ZahediPolice Book Exchange (Goldsmiths CCA), 2022Price on Request
Weeping Diwani
Abbas ZahediWeeping Diwani, 202010000 GBP
Delete the Beans (Deadweight)
Abbas ZahediDelete the Beans (Deadweight), 20221300 GBP
Ehrlich Steinberg
Gallery
Ehrlich Steinberg
Los Angeles

Ehrlich Steinberg is an LA-based contemporary art gallery founded in 2023. The gallery exhibits national and international artists with a focus on emerging and research-based practices.