Farshad Farzankia, We Watched, 2024 (acrylic and oil stick on canvas). Detail.

Press release, February 2024

We are delighted to invite you to the opening of Farshad Farzankia's fourth solo exhibition We Watchin. We Watchin consists of a series of new works made especially for the exhibition.

Inspired by the language of Neo-Expressionism in his large iconic paintings, Farshad Farzankia remixes references from the 80’s to today to tell powerful narratives of migration and power relations in his works. Including icons of personal importance and building a lexicon of meaning through symbol: cameras reference the artist’s love of film and film direction, shoes which become understood as symbols of migration and red tulips that surround faces references iconic posters from Farzankia’s childhood in Tehran.

Farshad Farzankia (b. 1980 in Teheran, Iran. Lives and works in Copenhagen).

Looking forward to see you,
Andersen's

Opening: Friday the 23th of February 4-8 pm.
Exhibition period: February 23 - April 6, 2024.
More info: Andersenscontemporary.dk