About me
My name is Vajdon Sohaili; I am an artist and art historian in Toronto, Canada.
I was born in Southern Africa to Iranian parents in the Year of the Rat. I have at one point or another worked as the following: actor, writer, director, film critic, copy editor, body-piercing salesperson. I have never felt anything even remotely approaching patriotism. My favourite punctuation mark is the semi-colon; its mysteries are manifold.
About my pictures
I am interested in how the organic interacts with the mechanical, beyond dystopian discourses. My work strives to create spaces in which bodies and mechanisms can coexist, not simply as encounters of intrusion and constraint, but also of synthesis and symbiosis — a quiet consensual drama that tilts irresistibly into the erotic.
Entirely hand-drawn, my pictures stage impossible objects in theatres of ambiguous scale. The intended effect is one of uneasy proximity, silence, suspense — unsettling but not, it is hoped, without optimism or humour.
My name is Vajdon Sohaili; I am an artist and art historian in Toronto, Canada.
I was born in Southern Africa to Iranian parents in the Year of the Rat. I have at one point or another worked as the following: actor, writer, director, film critic, copy editor, body-piercing salesperson. I have never felt anything even remotely approaching patriotism. My favourite punctuation mark is the semi-colon; its mysteries are manifold.
About my pictures
I am interested in how the organic interacts with the mechanical, beyond dystopian discourses. My work strives to create spaces in which bodies and mechanisms can coexist, not simply as encounters of intrusion and constraint, but also of synthesis and symbiosis — a quiet consensual drama that tilts irresistibly into the erotic.
Entirely hand-drawn, my pictures stage impossible objects in theatres of ambiguous scale. The intended effect is one of uneasy proximity, silence, suspense — unsettling but not, it is hoped, without optimism or humour.