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Ali Ahadi


Ahadi’s interdisciplinary practice spans from site-specific ephemeral installations to sculpture, photo and video based works. Consisting of representational images, composite objects and text projections that propose certain ways of approaching particular conceptual dualities, Ahadi’s work is constituted through addressing the problems of presentation and representation, monsteration and demonstration, and, finally, the relationship between aesthetics and contingent forms of abstractions that are not necessarily reducible to the conventional artistic determination, within politically charged situations. “Here There Nowhere, Flaccid Means Without End” and “Warning: Use by Other than Registered Owner Prohibited by Law” are the titles of the two recent solo exhibitions that he has had at Grunt Gallery and AMS Gallery in Vancouver. Ahadi’s practice also involves translating literatures, mostly in continental philosophy, aesthetics and politics, into Farsi, such as Alain Badiou’s Metapolitics. Ahadi received his MFA in visual arts from the University of British Columbia, in 2012.