Ali Banisadr: ‘The World Upside Down’

At Goldsmiths CCA, London, the artists repurpose images from digital sources to create works which evoke the experience of being ‘extremely online’

In a series of collaged paintings at Victoria Miro, London, the artist builds images from fragmented memories, identities and histories

At Sid Motion Gallery, London, the artist engages with states of freedom and imprisonment in works that recall the COVID-19 lockdowns

At Nahmad Projects, London, the artist’s paintings draw attention to the economic and environmental impacts of fashion

In pointillist drawings of women urinating in public at Guts Gallery, London, the artist captures moments of feminine solidarity

In a rich exhibition at Corvi-Mora, London, the artist draws on an eclectic set of references to reimagine cultural inheritances 

In an immersive exhibition at Somerset House Studios, London, the artist reflects on the 2011 London riots and the struggle for agency

At Opera Gallery, London, the artist works with charcoal and chiaroscuro to depict a pantheon of deities

In a packed retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, the artist’s depictions of everyday objects take centre stage

In her latest show at Waddington Custot, London, the artist’s triptychs reimagine the sacred through large-scale abstraction