SAYEH SARFARAZ
 
 
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  Dessins 2006-2009
mixed media, 420 x 300mm

The drawing is for me the means of constructing my thinking process, it's an element that helps me to better understand my territory and a way to better understand the context i live in.

 

   
   
 
 

Aide-Mémoire, 2008
2008, 20 m2, with 300 elements

Depicting observations of life during a stay, an integration, in a new country by way of pages in my agenda.

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Valise, 2007
20 m2, with 400 elements

video extract "Land of Lego"

   
   
 
 

Monde-Hybride, 2006
10 m2, with 250 elements

I've adopted a procedure of transformation: hybridization. The juvenile characters that lives in the Walt Disney world are hybrids; half animals, half humans. They live in the extraordinary world of childhood that gently welcomes the Park visitors. At the moment when those visitors start to respond favorably to this introduction, they get hit with a powerful army that attracts visitors in a whirlwind of commercialism.
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Déménagement, 2006
10 m2

It's the idea of moving, the will to move on. It's also putting my past works in card-boxes and renew my thinking.



   
   
 
 

Femme-Objet, 2005
2005, digital print
600 x 800 mm

The Persian motifs drawn on my face represent, for me, the Islamic veil and the right to express oneself. It's a way of expressing the forced silence so difficult to evoke in words. The Iranian women is a prisoner of a thinking process dictated by the Regime that blocks lucidity. ...

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