Artist Statement

The Orderly Conduct series explores the effect of introducing a reflexive visual language to a documentary context.

The images apply repetition and temporal compression to ordinary experiences and situations mainly within the public realm and with unaware people serving as protagonists. The effect is to render the everyday strange by evoking the "dematerialization” of space, the "depersonalisation" of the individual and the "derealization" of everyday life. Orderly Conduct develops the psychological potential of these strategies, where the primary interest of the project lies in the value of this new visual ‘space’ for design. More specifically how this approach might make abstract design concepts more readily comprehensible and create a context for speculation and debate.

Artist Bio

Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad was born in Birmingham, England in 1979, raised in Iran and Australia and is now living and working in London.

Hashemi-Nezhad has a background in product design and photography and a continuing interest in the role of the designer in the rapidly changing definition and use of the public realm. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008, with an MA in product design, and in 2009 established a scalable and cross-disciplinary practice that produces work in the form of photographs, public interventions and products.

Hashemi-Nezhad has conducted numerous international projects and has exhibited in Milan, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Sydney. He has acted as associate tutor at several London based universities, and is currently leading a research project concerning the future of public space in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London.

For further information please see www.bh-n.com