Photo by: David Stjernholm.
Panteha Abareshi, Caregiving, 2024.
Photo by: David Stjernholm.
Panteha Abareshi, An Immeasurable Anomaly, 2024.
Photo by: David Stjernholm.
Panteha Abareshi, Anatomical Model, 2024.
Human Resources Los Angeles
Fund: $32,000
Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) will present Impaired Erotics, a solo exhibition by Panteha Abareshi that examines how the disabled body is relegated to the fringes of visibility and yet made into a spectacle, bringing a complex duality to the nature of disability as performance. For Abareshi, the absence of autonomy makes room for fetishism to blossom, as the disabled individual is made into a tool for the able-bodied viewer to use as linguistic metaphor and/or as sexualized fetish object. In their work, the disabled body becomes a vessel for the taboo corporeal fears and desires of the able-bodied audience. Impaired Erotics will include Abareshi’s pieces recently displayed at O-Overgaden (Copenhagen, Denmark) alongside newly commissioned artworks. Their new series will display “the collision of violence and tenderness in caregiving to the sick body.” Abareshi’s project at HRLA aims to deconstruct these forms of looking as they exist on the expansive spectrum ranging from the passive, subconscious gaze to highly weaponized and privileged forms of looking.
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