Sayeh Sarfaraz

Sayeh Sarfaraz’s creative world draws its inspiration from the political events relating to her home country’s government. The constant anxiety of conflict, censorship, and the repression of the people of Iran is relayed in the naive language of a plastic toy collection and drawings. Relating directly to her wandering and exile, the figurines, haphazardly staged along childlike patterns, experience dramatic situations such as violent struggles, bombardments, jailings. This distortion between play and politics highlights the injustice of the manipulation of the weak, the gulf between great powers, and a people’s struggle for freedom. By a power transfer, the artist becomes the mistress of her own world as an outlet where her thoughts can freely unfold.

Biography

Sayeh Sarfaraz was born in Shiraz, the cultural capital of Iran, located in the south west of the country. She graduated from l’École supérieure Des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg France and she is now pursuing different artistic projects in Montreal where she moved in a year ago.

Recent exhibitions

2014	Théâtre de notre mémoire collective, Maison des arts, Laval. Curator: Claire Moeder Foreman art gallery, Sherbrooke. Curator: Vicky Chainey Gagnon Antoine Ertaskiran Gallery, Montreal.
2013	Fox&Friends, Centre d’artistes Vaste et Vague, Carleton-Sur-Mer, Canada Étrange dictature, le MAI, Montreal
2012	Mémoire d'élephant, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal L’Iran d'aujourd'hui, Centre d’art AdMare, Îles de la Madeleine, Canada
2011	Dictator in Town, CAFK+A, Cambridge Galleries of Art, Canada Mapping the World 1, Darling Foundry, Montreal Resist, Nuit blanche, Montreal
2010	Magic Never Ends "Iran of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", ARTSPACE, Peterborough, Ontario. Curator: Iga Janik.