I Found A Tunnel Behind The Closet In My Room

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Image courtesy of aceartinc

EXHIBITION RUN: MAY 16 – JULY 4 2025

ARTIST STATEMENT: Born and raised in Tehran, Iran, and with a BFA from the University of Tehran, Ashkan Nejadebrahimi moved to Canada in 2021 and received his MFA degree from the University of Manitoba in 2023.

As a multi-disciplinary artist, his drawings, sculptures, and digital works have appeared in exhibitions in Iran and Canada. Ashkan has also worked with filmmakers, Video and motion media artists as video editor and collaborator.

Ashkan’s practice probes intersections and overlaps between imagination and reality in different contexts such as the connection between the Self and the Other, memory and nostalgia, and questioning the difference between original and replica.

EXHIBITION STATEMENT: This exhibition is the third part of the series of works after “Autopsy of the remains” and “Last night a DJ saved my life” that artist has created since his immigration to Canda.

In this body of work Ashkan is exploring the quality of mark making and the social, psychological and cultural motivations that affect it. This series has been shaped during artist’s research on subjects related to anthropology such as the routes of mark making through the history of development of humankind, language, and unconscious.

Ashkan’s new works employs technical aspects of surrealist automatism and abstract expressionism to tell a mythical story that binds with the real world. This series of works connect itself to the history of Iranian Art by choosing the material of paper not just as a surface for mark making but as an object that can endure the exhaust of time.