Ehsan Fardjadniya
Description
Ehsan Fardjadniya is a performance and visual artist. He was exiled from Iran in 2000 due to his political cartoons, after which he applied for asylum in the Netherlands. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and has a Master in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths’ College in London. Art and activism coalesce in Fardjadniya’s work, for which his “politicized” body—as a political exile and man of color—forms the starting point. His personal experiences and struggles with institutional racism filter through in the poignant stories about migration that he tells.
Edgelanders: Amsterdam on Trial / Part III: The Witnesses – Exhibition Booklet, archive
A letter from the earth
interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)
Envelop, pen on paper, Dutch sand form my house garden in Bijlmer
I was born in the land that they recently bombed. I was at the age of the drawing of the envelopue when they started the invasion and made our land unsafe but we stayed, loving our land and water, until exile was enforced. Since a few years ago, for the first time in decades of living in exile, i have a house with a garden. I didn’t buy it but in the rental contract it seems that no one cab=n evict me form it. I’m sending soem of my garden sand to your garde so no one can evict yours.