PANTEHA ABARESHI NEEDS A STUDIO SPACE!

My name is Panteha Abareshi, and I am an artist based in LA.
I am in urgent need of a studio space, so that I can not only fabricate new sculptural works I have been conceptualizing since January, but also stage and document new performative/immersive works. I am needing the funds to lease a space in the DTLA area that is accessible for 6 months.

My work is rooted in my existence as a chronically ill/disabled body existing with multiple medical illnesses, at the root of which is sickle cell zero beta thalassemia- a genetic blood disorder that causes debilitating pain, and bodily deterioration that both increase with age.
Through my work, I aim to discuss the complexities of living within a body that is highly monitored, constantly examined, and made to feel like a specimen. Taking images that are recognizable as “human” forms, and reducing them to the gestural is a juxtaposition of my own body's objectification, and dissection. Through my performance work, I push my body to, and often beyond, the limits of its ability.
The radicalized abjectification of my own corporeal form allows for a continued examination of my bodily deterioration, and its connection to a larger context of universal fragility fear, pain and mortality. In my video work and installations, I aim to make the viewer hyper-aware of their own body, and actively employ accessibility as a tool, both withholding and over-extending it as a means of casting light onto the ill/disabled experience.
With every piece, my practice traces and documents my body's malfunction, and its disintegration. With this deterioration comes implantation of medical devices, prosthetics, and the use of mobility aids. My body is the primary medium in my practice, and these materials become vital to the visual language of my work.

Currently, I am contemplating the prosthesis, and simultaneous abstraction and mechanization of the fundamentally inorganic “body.”

My work can be found HERE 
and my Vimeo housing my video works can be found HERE 

Any and all help is so appreciated. 

DONORS WHO CONTRIBUTE OVER $100 WILL RECEIVE A SIGNED ARCHIVAL PRINT OF THEIR CHOICE FROM A SELECTION OF WORKS.

Thank you so much, 

-Panteha