Pedram Sazesh

Pedram Sazesh uses painting to address social relations and personal narratives surrounding migration, immigration, and notions of national heritage. Sazesh is interested in how they contend with the construction of identity while negotiating with abstraction and image-making as the site to model and consider this research. Sazesh explores popular Iranian tourist destinations as a site that models a post-messianic time, negotiating with USA immigration and visa procedures as a means to reframe traditional figure-ground relations, colour as geography, and transient sites of nomadic textiles. Recently, Sazesh has been dyeing outfits with natural dyes such as madder and oak apples to contextualize a court case against the Netherlands’ immigration department for discrepancies within their artist-residency permit procedures.