Erfan Aboutalebi articulates his artistic practice through installations, drawing, text, and video to address social and economic issues that emerge within artistic domain.
Erfan Aboutalebi completed his MA Visual Art at Berlin university of arts in 2021. His works were most recently shown at Kassel Dokfest Monitoring, NgbK Berlin and Museum für Fotografie Berlin. He received the Karl Hofer Scholarship in 2021.
How to open the eyes of a person in photoshop
HD Video / 05:33 min / 2019
In style of online tutorials, the video work shows an attempt to bring a bog body from the Iron Age back to life with the help of Photoshop. The performative editing act, which consists of different chapters such as symmetry adjustment, smoothing, color therapy and rejuvenation, is outlined by a thesis selected from Wikipedia: “in the iron age bog bodies were thrown into the bog and they were examples of human sacrifice to the gods”. In a sense, we witness the sacrifice reaching the modern gods, the people of today, who have total power over what they see or want to see.
What if I fall asleep before it ends?
HD Video / 12:00 min / 2021
02:01 min excerpt
What if i fall asleep before it ends is a two-channel video installation with a vertical projection and a monitor, which is mirrored.
..Lets pretend it’s the future and you find ourselves in outer space. You enter the plenum of three celestial bodies. Your eye perceives them as emojis and puppets. seems like they want to tell a bedtime story but they are quite distracted..