Abbas Zahedi (b. 1984, London, UK) is a British artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans installation, sound, sculpture, performance, and social practice, exploring the intersections of care, grief, ecology, spirituality, and systems of collective support. His work investigates how communities navigate experiences of loss, uncertainty, and transformation, often creating environments that foreground listening, participation, and shared acts of reflection. Through collaborative processes and immersive sonic installations, Zahedi examines forms of connection that extend beyond the purely material while responding to the social, political, and emotional conditions of contemporary life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drawing on participatory methodologies and site-responsive approaches, Zahedi frequently works with musicians, scientists, healthcare professionals, faith communities, and local participants to produce projects that blur the boundaries between art, research, and public engagement. Sound functions as a central medium within his practice, not simply as an aesthetic device but as a means of fostering dialogue, empathy, and collective experience. His installations often invite audiences to slow down, listen attentively, and reconsider relationships between people, place, and the wider ecological systems that sustain them. By bringing together personal narratives with broader environmental and social concerns, his work proposes alternative models of care grounded in reciprocity, interdependence, and mutual responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2025\u201326, Zahedi presented Begin Again<\/em> as part of Gathering Ground<\/em> at Tate Modern, a year-long installation that transformed the museum’s architectural infrastructure into an evolving acoustic environment, reaffirming his commitment to collaborative practice and the creation of spaces for collective listening, ecological reflection, and renewal. His work has been exhibited widely across the UK and internationally, including presentations at institutions such as Tate Modern and the Venice Biennale. Through an innovative practice that combines sound, participation, and social engagement, Zahedi continues to expand the possibilities of contemporary art as a space for healing, encounter, and collective imagination, offering thoughtful responses to some of the most pressing cultural and environmental questions of our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abbas Zahedi (b. 1984, London, UK) is a British artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans installation, sound, sculpture, performance, and social practice, exploring the intersections of care, grief, ecology, spirituality, and systems of collective support. His work investigates how communities navigate experiences of loss, uncertainty, and transformation, often creating environments that foreground listening, participation, and shared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6722,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[12],"jetpack-portfolio-type":[],"jetpack-portfolio-tag":[],"class_list":["post-6502","jetpack-portfolio","type-jetpack-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-featured"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fountain.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/6502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fountain.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fountain.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fountain.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fountain.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/6502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6725,"href":"https:\/\/fountain.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/6502\/revisions\/6725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fountain.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fountain.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fountain.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fountain.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjetpack-portfolio-type&post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fountain.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjetpack-portfolio-tag&post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}