Poesis, System, and Sensorial Regeneration: a Conversation With Abbas Zahedi

The work of Abbas Zahedi (b. 1984) operates in the space between social action, biological systems, and aesthetic experience. Drawing from his former training as a medical doctor, Zahedi creates immersive, relational frameworks—often employing sound and ritual—that poetically address collective trauma, systemic failures, and the contemporary sense of precarity. This interview explores the artist’s unique trajectory, from a background rooted in protocols of care to the design of his artistic systems and methodologies, examining how his practice reclaims sensorial experience and artifice as indispensable tools to generate genuine connection and communal support, from both an artistic and experiential point of view.