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:
This painting is from a °The metaverse° Series. in this painting the dimension and format of canvas is deconstructed, the shape of canvas is asymmetric, i created a puzzle shape form, used ”Roses which are the symbol of happiness and luck in Persian Mythology” I wrote and draw Persian poems in Persian hand writing which are wrote about the meaning of life and challenges the meaning of life; I used poems which are criticizing and draw my self portrait as a symbol of Persian Artist in this world. I used a separate small canvas as a part of this artwork which symbolizes the metaverse, the other life which is trying to observe and catch us inside , another reality of existence. In Metaverse all people are in an act of escape in order to avoid and escape from the energies that are organized on their own. As this unification-integration process becomes global, it affects the whole world and eventually a tendency to be absorbed and penetrated into the new universe! You and I… we all want to escape… it’s a fact. By escaping, we break the whole order behind us and say hello to the new world…
We were the avengers of life The men without heads Playing without heads Playing with ourselves Like marionettes...
We were lost in streams
Lost inside an electric dream
Believed we were ego, Causa Sui...
Another god, another plastic machine...
We questioned the existence Of other beside being ourselves,
Believed everything comes from everything,
saw our faces Painted in neon colors
A few electrified colors
A few electrified faces
Only scratched down, painted down on transparent flesh.