Freudian Typo
A project by:
Freudian Typo (Ali Ahadi - Ghazaleh Avarzamani)
Multi-Media Installation
2025
Freudian Typo tackles on how the English language—entangled with the vocabulary of corporate finance, debt, and development—underpins the globally precarious state of land, bodies, and truth. It critiques Britain’s imperial past and how it manifests today, tracing connections between historical sources and current events in politics and finance.
The exhibition takes a critical look at age-old English nursery rhyme, the Old Woman and Her Pig to unpack themes of debt, exploitation, and catastrophe. Drawing on archival research into these tales, the exhibition sees the collective interpret a children’s fable through works that are full of puns and double meaning, revealing ongoing cycles of dispossession, accumulation, and re-possession.
At its core, a hyper-realistic sculpture of Palmerston—the former Chief Mouser of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office—regards an electronic motorway sign which displays the phrase “Truth and Reconsolidation.”
Freudian Typo
Installation view
2025
Of A Croocked Tanner
Archival pigment print
52.3x62 in. (133x158 cm)
2025
A Tanner
Archival pigment print
48x62 in. (123x158 cm)
2025
A Tanner For Hide
Archival pigment print
48x62 in. (123x158 cm)
2025
John Sigmund Tanner Goes to Work
Archival pigment print
42.5x62 in. (108x158 cm)
2025
The Minting od a Tanner
Archival pigment print
48x62 in. (123x158 cm)
2025
A Tanner in the Mint
Archival pigment print
40.5x62 in. (103x158 cm)
2025
Black Line and the Edifice
Vinyl, MDF, prespex, paint
2025
Landscape of a Necessary Fix
Single channel video, 11 min
2025
Freudian Typo
Variable message road sign
2025
Thus Regard Palmerston
Mixed Media, Ladder
2025
Concrete Abstract Subtraction
Steel bike rack, Concrete
2025
Photography:
Rob Harris
© Ghazaleh Avarzamani 2025