Armin Abedi’s practice examines the unstable relationship between body, perception, and presence. His work interrogates how identity and embodiment are experienced in moments of transition, where the figure is never fixed but continually negotiating visibility and absence. Layered and glitched forms serve as both a formal and conceptual device, reflecting tensions between what is perceived and what remains obscured.

Drawing from traditional figurative painting while engaging with contemporary visual concerns, Abedi experiments with colour, transparency, and form to explore the slippage between self and representation. His practice considers the body as a site of desire, ambivalence, and ambiguity; tangible yet elusive, constructed yet always dissolving. Through this lens, his work investigates how perception, identity, and subjectivity are constantly reframed in the act of looking.

MEDIUM

oil on canvas

ARTIST BIO

Armin Abedi (b. 1991, Iran) is a figurative painter whose work examines the body as a site of psychological, cultural, and social tension. Influenced by psychoanalysis and cultural taboos, his paintings distort and transform the human form to reveal hidden narratives of identity and desire. Abedi holds a BFA in Painting from the University of Science and Culture, Tehran (2015), and has exhibited in Iran, Turkey, and Lebanon. He currently lives and works in Vancouver, BC.