Sépànd Danesh
French-Iranian artist Sépànd Danesh produces paintings that represent infinite inclusion, "corners" inhabited by mysterious objects. He also makes drawings; for the past decade, he has created hundreds of tiny glyphs both abstract and figurative, sorted in columns on A4 paper that he keeps in the "corner" of his pocket. He also rewrites or copies the full text of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time". His work is all about reassembling the scattered material of his personal history, of art history, and of global history. That’s the reason of the "corner": it’s a place where you can put things before sorting and filing them. Sépànd Danesh left his home country, Iran, when he was 11 years old. He has lived in the United States and in France since. Migration, the movement from one place to another and from one language to another, has modified his relationship to time. Sépànd shifted from a linear perception of time to a fragmented one. His art is therefore an attempt to fix the unfixable, a sort of imaginary language created to find a balance between old and new languages.
Born in 1984, Danesh currently lives and works in Paris. In addition to solo shows throughout France, …
French-Iranian artist Sépànd Danesh produces paintings that represent infinite inclusion, "corners" inhabited by mysterious objects. He also makes drawings; for the past decade, he has created hundreds of tiny glyphs both abstract and figurative, sorted in columns on A4 paper that he keeps in the "corner" of his pocket. He also rewrites or copies the full text of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time". His work is all about reassembling the scattered material of his personal history, of art history, and of global history. That’s the reason of the "corner": it’s a place where you can put things before sorting and filing them. Sépànd Danesh left his home country, Iran, when he was 11 years old. He has lived in the United States and in France since. Migration, the movement from one place to another and from one language to another, has modified his relationship to time. Sépànd shifted from a linear perception of time to a fragmented one. His art is therefore an attempt to fix the unfixable, a sort of imaginary language created to find a balance between old and new languages.
Born in 1984, Danesh currently lives and works in Paris. In addition to solo shows throughout France, including "Hubtopia" at Backlash Gallery (2018), his work has been featured internationally at FaFa Gallery in Helsinki; the 8th International Congress of Hypnosis & Resilience in Sorrento, Italy; and Collectif Idiom / Galerie Clovis XV in Brussels, Belgium, among others.
Text courtesy of the Camargo Foundation.
Fondation Colas, Paris, France
