Arash Mirhadi (IR),
Bahareh Mirhadinezhadfard (IR/SE),
Johan Lundin (SE),
Per Westerlund (SE)
27-30/5 2024

Arash Mirhadi (IR), born in 1981 in Shiraz, Iran, works mainly with painting and graphic design but also with photography, illustration and print. He received his bachelor degree in handicraft from Isfahan University of Art in 2004, moved to Tehran in 2008 and gained his master of painting from Islamic Azad University of Tehran. He works primarily in painting and graphic design but is also active in photography and illustration and printmaking. In 2018, he and his sister Bahareh Mirhadi received a residency at UNICORN - Artists in Solidarity. The artwork that they had planned to work with on site in Malmö raised questions about cooperation, family memories, control and the differences that distance generate. When Arash’s visa application, and later appeal, were rejected, the distance became a method that was forced upon them. Now they meet again – again at a distance, in an era of distancing. Where the absence of the artist, a sibling, extorts something else: new collaborations, branches, frustration.

Bahareh Mirhadinezhadfard (IR) is an artist and curator based in Malmö.

Johan Lundin (SE) is an artist and works with performance, sculpture and textiles. Johan runs the inverted zoo Human World where fictional animals observe and feed humans. The animals that run the zoo are all created using recycled materials from humans. They consist, among other things, of foam rubber that has been used to make hard surfaces a little softer, stuffed animals that have been played with or clothes that people have worn to protect the body or to communicate identity and belonging to other people.

Per Westerlund (SE) works with the concepts of reality, fiction, chance, and logic are explored through painting and drawing. The images are created through a systematic process of observation and depict everyday objects and ordinary environments drawn from the home. The depicted objects play one role in a visual narrative, while the gaze that created them plays the other. Per Westerlund received his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2013 and his Master’s degree from the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in 2020.


Photo: Johan Lundin