Home Front: Abbas Akhavan and the art of place
Canadian Art, Spring 2012, v. 29, no. 1, pp. 74-77
This article looks at the work of Abbas Akhavan, a Tehran-born Canadian artist who has recently attained national attention for his artwork. Akhavan works in many mediums, including video, installation and performance. Some of his work addresses the politics of race in Canada, while other work plays with site-specificity. Akhavan also uses his work to explore domesticity, and how quickly it can change from something welcoming to something dangerous and violent.
ITEM 2012.003 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
August 2006 – Abbas Akhavan
Makeshift Objects – Abbas Akhavan
Landscape: for the birds – Abbas Akhavan
Guests, Ghosts, Hosts – Abbas Akhavan
Islands – Abbas Akhavan
Variations on Ghosts and Guests – Abbas Akhavan
Hawkers – Abbas Akhavan