ARTIST STATEMENT

It has been always interesting for me, whenever I analyze my manner and think of its reasons, I always see that the origin of the formation of every behavior is engraved in my subconscious like a pattern. We are living in a century when you’re not able to see and validate yourself as a mere individual. Social life and its conventions have been perforated in our substructure and became a part of it.

With the development of science and technology, these conventions have been enhanced to a extent that finding a pure behavior is somehow impossible. Now only these patterns and conventions are ruling our behaviors.

Patterns can be anything; from tiny habits of our father, to a glamorous capitalist architecture, or everything and anything that we taste and sense and remember, even if we haven’t chosen it ourselves. We are drowned in concepts that have been imposed to us by social and relationship criteria.

But me, I don’t intend to save the world, but I search for myself in me, maybe I am still alive. I try to understand the patterns with which I encounter in my society in my artworks. This means that understanding them is a way to cross over, because in fact, I am trying to reach my originality through understanding these patterns, a matter that seems somehow impossible or complicated in our time.

I know the patterns, I reproduce and merge them. Just like the pattern papers of a dress which appears to be chaotic and disorganized, but only to people who don’t know their reading rules. And I also tried to demonstrate these patterns so chaotic that they would become and abstract feature. But as I said, only for people who don’t know the rules of these fusions. Reading rules of these patterns is difficult and exhausting even for me, and I know their fusion rules!

For several political reasons, us, artists have a few opportunities to egress the cultural membrane of my country. This residency will provide me with the opportunity to exit this closed atmosphere to accustom with new paradigms and spaces, and generalize the philosophy of my work further in a new environment.

BIOGRAPHY

The existing paradox in his transitioning environment, challenging the paradigms and his nation’s public figures and symbols, traditions and conventions and his unusual use of different materials and elements, has made him renowned in his home country, Iran. Peyman Shafieezadeh, graduated in painting from Azad University of Tehran, Faculty of Art and Architecture, having held three solo exhibitions and participated in more than thirty group exhibitions and biennales in Iran, The United States, China, Bulgaria, Turkey, etc, could manage to gain a remarkable position to present his art. His thorough regard to the universe is a matter that indicates itself through the simplicity of his artworks and amazingly challenges the cultural issues of his surrounding society into a theoretical and ontological depth, and then again, shares them with the audience in a quiet, unpretentious appearance. From this point of view, it is clearly observed that he is truly progressing alongside contemporary art.