The artist Abbas Akhavan lives and works in Toronto. His activities range from ephemeral installations to drawing and video. More recently he has been working on the concept of “domestic landscape” (gardens, courtyards…). His work has been shown in Canada at the Vancouver Art Gallery and with Artspeak, as well as at the Kunsten museum of modern art (Denmark), at the Printemps de septembre (Toulouse), at the Third Line gallery (Dubai), at the Darling Foundry, Mercer Union (Canada) and at the Belvedere Museum (Austria).