Cluster 5

Sara Abbasian

Using the most basic means of visual creation, namely pencil and paper, Sara Abbasian tells the story of the unceasing violence of human beings to themselves and their natural environment. Abbasian’s drawings of humans and animals in her “Epidemy” series are tantamount to an ominous prediction, whereas “Cluster 5” accurately outlines those predictions that have come to pass. Similar to a medium, she summons the dead into the world of the living and then portrays them: an irritant, nightmarish image that stuns the viewer into rediscovering their relation to nature, whose lot has been nothing but death and destruction after nursing us for millennia.

Sara Abbasian, untitled, from “Cluster 5” series, pencil on paper, 200 x 68 cm, 2021
Sara Abbasian, untitled, from “Cluster 5” series, pencil on paper, 93 x 70 cm, 2021
Sara Abbasian, untitled, from “Cluster 5” series, pencil on paper, 70 x 100 cm, 2021
Sara Abbasian, untitled, from “Cluster 5” series, pencil on paper, 70 x 100 cm, 2021
Sara Abbasian, untitled, from “Cluster 5” series, pencil on paper, 50 x 33 cm, frame size: 60.5 x 43 cm, 2021
Sara Abbasian, untitled, from “Cluster 5” series, pencil on paper, 50 x 33 cm ,2021
Sara Abbasian, untitled, from “Cluster 5” series, pencil on paper, 25 x 21 cm ,2021
Sara Abbasian, untitled, from “Cluster 5” series, pencil on paper, 25 x 21 cm ,2021
Sara Abbasian, untitled, from “Cluster 5” series, pencil on paper, 28 x 20 cm ,2021
Asia Now 2021, installation view
Asia Now 2021, installation view