A Bridge That Witnesses Suffering & Yet Continues To Connect

A Bridge That Witnesses Suffering & Yet Continues To Connect

Abbas Zahedi

2.48 min The main work spans the entire Ponte della Paglia, a bridge on which people congregate to view the Bridge of Sighs. Prior to this, other elements of the work can be heard on your approach: chant, church, explosion, heartbeat, label machine & siren.

‘A Bridge That Witnesses Suffering & Yet Continues To Connect’ follows a group of diasporic/migrant musicians, who have connected at a jam session in London and are trying to create a musical bridge so as to lift the mood of a song. The intimate nature of this process is reflected against a collage of sounds connected to the journeys of these individuals; this forms a dialogue of rhythms becoming a bridge towards something more hopeful.

Musicians featured: Fahad Khalid, Medina Whiteman, Faisal Salah, Rukea Az, Atallah Khan and Ahmad Ikhlas.

Abbas Zahedi is a multi-disciplinary artist. His practice ranges across photography, installation, performance, moving image, and participatory events, which entwine expressive and socially engaged modes of being. Zahedi exhibited his installation MANNA at the Diaspora Pavilion during the 57th Venice Biennale.

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