FreddieFoulkes Gallery proudly presents Mysteries of Sweep, Aryana Sheibani’s second solo exhibition, through June 2026. A British-Swiss-Iranian artist, Sheibani here exhibits various works, (various in scale, material, and subject), which taken collectively address meaning (or lack of), purpose (or lack of), and the discourse surrounding authorship and ownership.

In her work, fractured and incapacitated tools of the digital age become artefacts - not so much of a time past, but of a parallel universe in which these objects serve different, obscure functions. Inviting yet inconclusive, these defective tools (namely televisions and iPads) have been in different cases smashed (though not by the artist), etched into, woven over, framed, and exhibited. Sheibani here questions an object’s intended against its practiced use.

A large portion of Sheibani’s practice is rooted in historiography - the study of how history is written - and by and for whom these histories are intended. Inspired in part by the semantic and historiographical intrigue of ‘The Museum of Jurassic Technology’, an obscure private museum in Los Angeles, these works subvert the hierarchy in which exhibited artefacts or artworks profess truth, wisdom, or otherwise covetable information. At what point in its life does an object cease serving its original function and instead serve another? At what point does its redundancy inspire growth?

Aryana Sheibani (b. 2003, London) studied at Central Saint Martins, London (2023-2026) and in 2025 attained a diploma in creative computing at the Creative Computing Institute, London. Solo exhibitions include Mysteries of Sweep, FreddieFoulkes Gallery, London (2026); Threaded Voids, Lea Bischofberger Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (2026). Group exhibitions include artist-curated shows Sitting Sideways, The Good Rice, London (2025); Creative Computing Collective, London (2025); Textile Junction, Electro Studios, St. Leonards (2024); and Flat Inspection, London (2023). aryanasheibani