Essays and Reviews

Elephant Magazine, Review of Freudian Typo Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, Freudian Typo Aks Audiences to Consider Not Just What’s Being Said, but What Can’t Be Spoken, Sam Moore.

Canvas Magazine, Moral Balance, Review of Freudian Typo Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery & Condensed Word, Displaced Flesh Exhibition at the Delfina Foundation, Moral Balance: Freudian Typo at the Hayward Gallery and Delfina Foundation, Will Jennings.

BorderCrossings, Review of Freudian Typo Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery & Condensed Word, Displaced Flesh Exhibition at the Delfina Foundation, “Aw! You’ve found a friend!”: Ghazaleh Avarzamani and Ali Ahadi: Freudian Typo” and “Condensed Word, Displaced Flesh, Volume 44, Issue #168, September 2025, Mark Sheerin.

FAD Magazine, Review of Condensed Word, Displaced Flesh Exhibition at the Delfina Foundation & Freudian Typo Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, Sacrificial Cats and Soldier Goats, Mieke Brunkhorst.

Art Plugged, Feature preview of Freudian Typo Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, A New Take on Empire and Childhood Lore with Freudian Typo.

ArtDaily, Feature preview of Condensed Word, Displaced Flesh Exhibition at the Delfina Foundation, ArtDaily.com

TimeOut, Review of Freudian Typo Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, Phin Jennings.

Saltzpeter, Review of Freudian Typo Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, BLASPHEMERS, SODOMITES & MONEYLENDERS, Victoria Comstock-Kershaw, Danter and The Decameron Edition September 2025.

Peripheral Review Journal, Alibaba Conundrum at Griffin Art Projects by Ido Radon (Review of Alibaba Conundrum Exhibition at the Griffin Art Projects), Ido Radon, February, 2024.

Polemics, Alain Badiou (Verso, trans. Steve Corcoran, 2006), Chapters 1& 10, Forward and Translation into Farsi by Ali Ahadi, Published in
Critique of Political Economy Journal, 2023
کاربرد‌های کلمه‌ی «یهودی»، اَلَن بَدیو، پیشگفتار و ترجمه: علی احدی، نقد اقتصاد سیاسی، آذر ۱۴۰۲

“What is it to be ‘from the left’”, Gilles Deleuze, Farsi Translation and Forward by Ali Ahadi, published in Radio Zamaneh, 2023 «در سمتِ چپ بودن» چیست؟»


Let’s Get Messed Up, The shock of sex, power and subversions of what we hold dear crackle and pop in a provocative new art show (Review of Alibaba Conundrum Exhibition at the Griffin Art Projects), Dorothy Woodend, The Tyee, March 10, 2023.

L’hégémonie de la langue anglaise à la loupe du duo Alibaba Conundrum, (Review of Alibaba Conundrum Exhibition at the Griffin Art Projects), La Source, Amélie Lebrun // Culture, Exposition // Vol 23, No 16 - 7 au21 mars 2023

The New Exhibition Turns a Critical Eye on Global Dominance of English Language and Christianity, (Review of Alibaba Conundrum Exhibitionts.ca/exhibitions/alibaba-conundrum at the Griffin Art Projects), Nick Laba, NorthShore News, Feb 9, 2023

Pandemic, Time for a Transversal Political Imagination, Ali Ahadi, &&& (Nov. 13, 2022), The New Centre for Research & Practice (Re-published)

Art: Sensory Alibi or Discursive Argumentation? (Ali Ahadi in Interview with Babak Golkar), Ali Ahadi, QOQQOON Issue #6, 2021

A nutter essay (peership), Leigh Tennant, QOQQOON Journal, Vancouver, Canada

Signal Chains and the Break in Its Chain of Signification, Ali Ahadi, Response Essay to Steven Cottingham’s Exhibition, Signal Chains, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Arts, Canada

Pandemic, Time for a Transversal Political Imagination, Ali Ahadi, Tilting (2), SDUK Magazine, Issue 07, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto Canada (PDF of the Essay) –––– (PDF of the entire issue)\

Here’s Shit in Your Eye,  Gareth James, Essay on Ali Ahadi’s Solo Exhibition, Shit Yes Academy (Goh Ballet Academy), Ag Galerie Press, Tehran Iran

Taking a Signifier, Making a Signifier, Matt Browning, Essay on Ali Ahadi’s Solo Exhibition, Shit Yes Academy (Goh Ballet Academy), Ag Galerie Press, Tehran Iran

Maquillage & Semiopticon: An Epistemological Study of Lace & Mirrors, Mohammad Salemy (Alphabet Collection), Essay on Ali Ahadi’s Solo Exhibition, Shit Yes Academy (Goh Ballet Academy), Ag Galerie Press, Tehran Iran

Goh Ballet Academy (Shit Yes Academy), Exhibition’s Statement (ENG), Ali Ahadi, Ag Galerie, Tehran, Iran

Goh Ballet Academy (Shit Yes Academy), Exhibition’s Statement (Farsi), by Ali Ahad, Ag Galerie, Tehran, Iran

Displacement in “Displacement” - f (S...S) S ~ S (-) s, (جا به جایی>> در نا-در جایی>>), Response Essay on Bahar Samadi’s Exhibition, “Displacement”, by Ali Ahadi, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Cyclical Rejection & Viral Transformation, A literal reading of Ali Ahadi’s recent work, by Mohammad Salemy (On Ali Ahadi's Warning: Use By Other Than Registered Owner

Language and the “Eventuality” of the Avant-garde, by Mohammad Salemy, Independent Curator New York, NY (On Ali Ahadi's The Pedagogical State of Metamorphosis)

Encyclonospace Iranica: say goodbye to the white cubeby Kevin Griffin (On An Ideological Question)

Here There Nowhere, Flaccid Means Without End, by Cayley Malo, (On Ali Ahadi's Here There Nowhere, Flaccid Means Without End)

Here There Nowhere, Flaccid Means Without End, by Ahmad Tabrizi, (On Ali Ahadi's Here There Nowhere, Flaccid Means Without End