Hadi Fallahpisheh

I've been receiving a lot of calls

From strangers in the last couple of years in America.

This is how I learn

My number is listed again on a bathroom wall

Or an xxx website.

Everytime these voices call me and

Shout a different name.

Once they were asking for Asslifter, once it was Carpet Kisser

The other time it was Kebab.

Now my phone keeps ringing, and the voices are asking for Howdy.

Normally I talk with them to the point that

They would tell me what wall or website

They found my number so I could go and remove it

But this last time right after I picked the phone up:

Howdy Young Immigrant. The voice said.

I was about to ask who the fuck are you

But then my voice wasn’t coming out

And my ear was filled with my Persian cat screaming: Meaw Meaw.

When my cat screams Meaw twice that usually means:

Asshole wake up I’m hungry and you are going to be late.

- HF

Hadi Fallahpisheh (b. 1987, Tehran, Iran) works primarily with photography, as well as performance and installation to destabilize visions of a stable and singular subject. Often commenting on conditions of displacement, his work questions the ability of representation to convey truths, revealing the gaps between public perception and personal experience. Fallahpisheh moved to New York in 2014, and received an MFA in Photography from Bard College in 2016. He is a graduate of the Creative Practices Program in Photography at the ICP, New York.