BIOGRAPHY:
SAGHAR DAEIRI
1985 - Tehran, Iran.
Lives in Istanbul
Works as visual Artist based in Istanbul, Born in Tehran lives and works in Istanbul.
• A member of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ART / UPSD
She studied Art and Architecture in high school and then Bachelor of Painting in Tehran. She graduated and opened her first solo exhibition by the age of 22 which has been sold out in Azad Art Gallery in 2006. Since then, she had 5 solo shows in Tehran (Azad Art Gallery) and participated in several group shows around the world: New York Chelsea Art Museum, London, Berlin.
Her Shopping Malls of Tehran series were sold out and 3 of her paintings exhibited in Chelsea Modern Art Museum in United States. The exhibition named: Iran inside-Out Exhibition featured 35 artists living and working in Iran alongside 20 others living in the Diaspora. The result is a multifarious portrait of 55 contemporary Iranian artists challenging the conventional perceptions of Iran and Iranian art.
The Iran Coffee shops series were also sold out to private collection, exhibited then in several shows like Brick Lane Art Gallery in London.
In 2012 she migrated to Turkey and studied Master of Arts in Marmara University of Istanbul. She graduated in 2017; she interprets her artistic ideology as below:
My paintings are the representation of my society; the place I live and zone I live is reflecting me as a critical way; I raised in Iran which experienced very dramatic issues during history that affected people in social-cultural way. Especially as a woman I criticize my society due to their routine habits that imposes them to forget that what is happening around in a Grotesque Ironic way. The main aim of my art works is to face and confront people with a contagious disease of habit and silence! The modern epidemic sickness of modern life style!!!
“Be silent, live, consume and stay alive... and find salvation”
Hence my art works are ironically representing the seeker people for salvation. The seeking of prodigal happiness that shown in somehow black humor and comedy…
She participated in several exhibitions in Turkey and in the parallel in Iran and other countries.
SOLO SHOWS:
2021 “Entropy No: 08” SHAZAR Gallery, Naples/ Italy
2019 “Swallow-Kiss-Burn” MERKUR Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 “Offering You A Shangri –La –Like Enigma At Night Fall” -Azad Art Gallery –Tehran /Iran.
2011 “The man didn’t come with the Horse”-Azad Art Gallery–Tehran /Iran.
2010 “Beautiful, Spacious, Assured”-Azad Art Gallery–Tehran /Iran.
2009 “Tehran Shopping malls”- Azad Art Gallery –Tehran /Iran.
2007 “Tehran Coffee Shops”-Tehran-İran.
ARTWORK DESCRIPTION:
Entropy is the inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society, ”Entropy” is a term associated with the level of disorder within a system. When applied to cultural and political theory, entropy can also be interpreted broadly as the recognition of destructive / destructive elements and destabilizing forces in a closed system. Based on the concept of Entropy, this project is a project that reveals the efforts and imbalances caused by the modern era human beings to build a new world. I wanted to address this absurd cycle with a Grotesque and ironic approach, as I dealt with sociological issues in all my artworks during my whole artistic life. While trying to reveal the desperation of people who think that nature cannot be overcome and its boundaries cannot be overcome, they try to put forward their absurd efforts during this challenge, I also wanted to create all these personages with a humorous approach. We can see all objects drift and roll into a black hole. You can see a chaos hiding behind disorder, dispersion, or even on the backplate of a calm order there is a hidden chaos! The perception that social crises are getting stronger during the globalization process. As we move up, the existing heading angles are reflected on the external aspects and its impact on the social order, hence new approaches are needed, new religions, new systems, new inventions, new beliefs, new distraction and even new viruses!!! In this project, we can see the emergence of a constant chaos during the establishment of social orders, and when chaos arise, solutions are produced and shown to the society as a light, those people line up to go towards that light! I have compared this indicated light to a black hole. “A divine light that can save everything. However, this time, the old tactics do not work during this global chaos, so there is a need for greater chaos and new irregularities. So much so that we see a disorder that will leave behind all the chaos we know and know before.
in this painting I used the unique technique, I used ”watercolor” on canvas directly and this technique is unique and hard approach which is my specious technique.