WHEN: Friday 8 December, 5-6.30PM

WHERE: Primary, Gallery 1

BOOKING: Booking required. This workshop is for Primary residents and members, and artists participating in Courses for Dis-Course(s).

Join artist Abbas Zahedi and co-founder of Square Root Soda, Ed Taylor, for a session focused around citrus. The workshop will take the form of a sharing circle, where participants are encouraged to think and write creatively together. You are invited to bring and share your own reflections and texts on citrus as well as recipes using citrus fruit.

During the session we will try a range of citrus fruits provided by Ed and each participant will leave with a citrus drink, finished with a custom label made in the workshop. Abbas will share some examples of his work and writing around lemons. Abbas and Ed frequently collaborate having met through the drinks production business.

Bios:

Abbas Zahedi (b. 1984, London, UK), studied medicine at University College London, before completing his MA in Contemporary Photography: Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins in 2019. Abbas blends contemporary philosophy, poetics, and social dynamics with performative and new-media modes. With an emphasis on how personal and collective histories interweave, Abbas makes connections whenever possible with people involved in the particular situations upon which he focuses.

Selected exhibitions include: Holding a Heart in Artifice, Nottingham Contemporary (2023); Metatopia 10013, Anonymous Gallery, New York (2022); The London Open 2022, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); Postwar Modern, Barbican, London (2022); Testament, Goldsmiths CCA, London (2022); Temporary Compositions, Gallery 31 Somerset House, London (2021); Yarmonics 2021, Great Yarmoth, UK (2021); D.E.VALUATION, Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier (2021); 11 & 1, Belmacz, London (2021); Governmental Fires, FUTURA, Prague (2021); In Hindsight…, Bladr, Copenhagen (2020); Ouranophobia SW3, Chelsea Sorting Office, London (2020); How To Make A How From A Why?, Fire Station, South London Gallery, London (2020); Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London (2019); The Age of New Babylon, Lethaby Gallery, London (2018); Diaspora Pavilion, (ICF), Wolverhampton Art Gallery (2018); appetite, Apiary Studios, London (2018); Diaspora Pavilion, (ICF), Palazzo Pisani a Santa Marina, Venice (2017); rb&hArts, Royal Brompton Hospital, London (2008).

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Square Root is soda made with ingredients you’d find in your kitchen, not ingredients you can’t even pronounce.

It’s soda made seasonally to keep the fruit the freshest and the taste the tastiest.

It’s soda made from fruit to bottle - never, ever from concentrate.

It’s soda made by soda jerks. And yes that’s a good thing.

So while we’ll never say there’s a wrong way of making soda, we’ll heavily imply it by shouting loudly and proudly.

Square Root is soda made right.

Participation:

Citrus Sharing is part of Primary’s Artist Development Programme and delivered as part of a season of activity connecting with the themes of Roo Dhissou’s exhibition, Courses for Discourse(s). This workshop is for Primary residents and members, and artists participating in Courses for Dis-Course(s).