Proyectos Ultravioleta presents a solo by Abbas Zahedi, featuring a series of new sculptures that transform discarded architectural materials into a sonic environment, and invites visitors to reflect on ecological grief. Zahedi’s practice weaves together thought, sound, and form to trigger new ways of perceiving local environments to engage with broader ecological systems. Zahedi’s installations often function as resonant spaces where sound and rhythm become central elements, evoking the interconnectedness of natural processes, cultural flows, and social dynamics. By foregoing rigid formal boundaries, his work transforms into a living dialogue- an evolving, sensory experience that merges the auditory with the visual, fostering spaces for shared reflection to exchange. Repurposing pipes, gas cylinders and other elements typically used to channel utilities, the installation reimagines them as instruments and vessels carrying sound. This transformation creates a resonant eco-acoustic chamber, offering a multisensory experience that encourages contemplation on climate change and our current state of ecological grief, and the urgent need for sustainable living, while highlighting the possibilities for collective healing and environmental stewardship. This project is a variation of Begin Again, commissioned by Tate Modern, currently on display at the museum as part of the exhibition Gathering ground, which runs into 2026. As part of the installation, instruments and playback devices have been plugged into utility pipes and deeper architecture of the old power station turned museum. In the works at Tate Modern and Art Basel, the sound work is a generative, algorithmic recording created from the instruments themselves, with the audio rerouted through the sculptural assemblages via transducers. This means the materiality of the sculptures shapes the sound, producing a feedback loop designed to harmonise—though it never fully resolves. Each glitch and collapse triggers the system to begin again, positioning the work within a sonic landscape of renewal. It invites us to sit within this indeterminate zone and attune to new possibilities of regeneration. Begin Again, and the works included in this presentation create a space for collective listening where participants can reflect on how to protect and restore ecological connectivity that we all share.

With special thanks to Belmacz, Catherine Wood & Gathering Ground (Helen, Odessa & Marleen), Maria Garrido, New Vision Art Gallery, Proyectos Ultravioleta, Saul Eisenberg—and to my late family; the absences and losses that continue to shape me. RIP Khadija.
—Abbas Zahedi