HOSSEI BLESSSENSE at IMA Shop alongside Thunderbloom as part of Duty of Care Part I

Love knots

Pink Egg bags

diSSSc bags

Anus bricks

Silver scissors

Plushie Starfish

Conceived as an extended catalogue of his practice, ho55ei ~ BLESSSENSE bags and accessories are exclusively available for purchase in the gallery shop during ‘Duty of Care Part I’. Each item is totally unique and has been blessed by HOSSEI’s hands, breathed into, or sung over as part of its making.

Photos: Jacquie Manning

HOSSEI (b. 1985, Tehran) is a multidisciplinary artist with Persian, Turkish and Russian ancestry whose work addresses his heritage, fantasies and feelings, and notions of togetherness and healing. Through performance, sculpture, and installation, he explores the potential of everyday things to act as vessels for joy and healing. Acting as both exaggerations and extensions of the body, HOSSEI’s costumes are animated through euphoric live performances. As fantastical sculptures, his costumes affirm the potential of the spirit and endow everyday things with a new materiality and purpose.