Asdollah-Zadeh is an Auckland-based sculptor, painter and installation artist. His art practice and academic research has focused around concepts of the human condition and migration of local and global displaced communities in Asia and the West. His current research is focused around place/displacement, diaspora/migration, experience/memory and the environment.
Recreating Sisyphus's rolling of the rock uphill, the artist pulls the word 'Fear' up a dune.
A critique of the displacement of millions of people due to the Islamic revolution.
A response to the social unrest around Iran’s disputed elections of June 2009 that offered the promise of political change.