davood koochaki and farnood esbati

A former mechanic who became a late-blooming draftsman, Davood Koochaki fills his compositions with enigmatic and hybrid figures, bearing witness to a haunted past and a boundless imagination. His drawings, marked by a cross-hatching technique, oscillate between revelation and mystery, unveiling a raw, visceral, and deeply inhabited body of work. In 2021, this artist with a troubling yet captivating universe saw his work enter the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou), cementing a journey as singular as it is moving.

The artist Farnood Esbati, born in Tehran in 1993, Asperger’s syndrome was diagnosed in childhood. Today, it’s understood that this characterization, instead of reducing the person to their neurodiversity, actually opens the door to a realm of otherness that remains to be fully explored. Thus, young Farnood, instead of speaking, began drawing and painting on walls. Furthermore, later on, his passion for reading and books, which he continues to avidly collect, greatly enriched his spectrum.