On Existence, Poetic Revealing, and the Work of Art

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Research Article| November 01 2020 On Existence, Poetic Revealing, and the Work of Art: Interview with Mehdi Saadeti Mark Featherstone Mark Featherstone Mark Featherstone is senior lecturer in sociology at Keele University in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on the history of utopias and dystopias in philosophy, culture, and art. He is currently working on a book on the relationship between the Western idea of utopia, Asian thought, and art. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 322–339. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8593522 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Mark Featherstone; On Existence, Poetic Revealing, and the Work of Art: Interview with Mehdi Saadeti. Cultural Politics 1 November 2020; 16 (3): 322–339. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8593522 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsCultural Politics Search Advanced Search In this interview emerging Iranian artist Mehdi Saadeti discusses his career and the existentialist themes present in his work. After discovering Saadeti’s work Metamorphosis in the summer of 2019, Mark Featherstone interviewed the artist in January 2020, exploring key themes relating to the experience of exile, the politics of art, and the Heideggerian philosophy of poetry and the revealing of being. Given the contemporary age characterized by mobility, homelessness, technological rationality, and increasingly desperate attempts to make sense of processes of globalization that seem to generate chaos, Saadeti’s work is important because it speaks to key concerns of cultural politics in the early twenty-first century by drawing on existential thought and the tradition of abstraction in art to try to imagine meaningful worlds.Mehdi Saadeti was born in 1981 in the Iranian city of Tabriz. Following his bachelor’s- and master’s-level education in the architecture... © 2020 Duke University Press2020 Issue Section: Articles You do not currently have access to this content.