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| Shahab Fotouhi |
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Born 1980 in Yazd, Iran, Fotouhi lives and works in Tehran.
Fotouhi takes a certain socio-political position with the aim of adopting an ideology to embrace a set of attitudes and beliefs. His works range in media to include sculpture, video and photography and their subjects present moments of suspension, merging the playful and serious. At the same time they are examples of free exchanges of arguments and counter-arguments hopefully with no terminal synthesis. In Direct Negotiations a cat raps with its paws on a glass patio door hoping to be let in. It is not clear whether this is the owner's home, if the tenant is aware of the cat's presence or whether the cat will ever be let in. It is a simple everyday gesture that offers none of its own references, but proposes many analogies. In the photographic series Internal Affairs Fotouhi captures unrelated moments taken in Tehran between 2006 and 2007. They present found objects, interior design and people's portraits as sculptural forms, merging the uncanny of the everyday with that of the staged composition. Fotouhi's works have been exhibited in Too Much Pollution to Demonstrate, curated by Amiel Grumberg at Apexart Gallery, New York in 2005; Ethnic Marketing, curated by Tirdad Zolghadr at Azad Gallery, Tehran in 2006 and in the Loop Art Fair, Barcelona in 2007. In 2008 Fotouhi's video "Direct Negotiations" was screened in the Bidoun video lounge at the Dubai Art Fair. |
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