Pooya Abbasian

Born February 7, 1985 in Meshkinshahr, Iran

Lives and works in Paris

Pooya Abbasian is an Iranian artist based in Paris since 2011. His practice spans photography, video, drawing and installation. Time spent working with filmmakers has influenced the way he considers and questions the construction, dissemination and reception of images. He aspires to make these processes visible, but also to construct his own visual fictions through images he finds online on news sites and his own snapshots or recordings. Pooya Abbasian is more interested in ambiguities and transitory states than in assertions. With this in mind, he seeks bridges between mediums and continually tests new techniques. He enjoys discovering the poetic accidents that result from these marriages, which he compares to black holes opening onto horizons to be explored.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2018 – Discreetly Living Behind Your Face, Galerie52 Folkwang Universität, Essen, Germany.
Galerie des Petits Carreaux, Saint-Briac, France.

2018 – Telesm, Kuturkapelen(Pictoplasma Festival), Berlin, Germany.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2020 – Le Radeau des Cimes, Villa Belleville, Paris, France.

2019 – En Cas de Pluie (Jeune Création), Friche Etex, Paris, France. 2018 – Artvilnius, Vilnius Contemporary Art Fair, Lithuania.

2016 – Face à Face, La Source, La Guéroulde, France.

2014 – Transparency, Galerie des petits carreaux, Saint-Briac, France.

2013 – Le temps passé, Galerie des petits carreaux, Paris, France.

2011 – Nature Regulate, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran.

2008 – 9th Tehran Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran.

2007 – Exopalasht, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran.