Farzad kohan biography of williams

Farzad Kohan’s sculptures and paintings explore themes like love, migration, and identity, and often
incorporate appropriated media and found objects.

Partially inspired by his personal history and
surroundings, Kohan places an emphasis on form, allowing the successive stages of art making to
become analogous to diasporic experience, as diverse, sometimes opposing, elements are sampled,
brought together, and accumulated.

These apparent stages are integral parts of each finalised work.
Kohan’s formalistic process is revealed, for example, as he layers then strips abstract works through
painting, collage, décollage, and sanding, creating built-up yet weathered surfaces that are at once
chaotic and methodical.

Allusions to the passage of time, gradual transformations, and hidden stories are
found in the tactile details of his treated panels.
Text has also been central to Kohan’s compositions, as he uses Farsi or Arabic script to add nar