Tirgan

Hamed Sahihi

Born in 1980 in Tehran, Hamed Sahihi received his BA in painting and his graduate degree from the Iranian Young Filmmaker Society later in 2003. Sahihi's intriguing paintings with faceless confined figures and eerily idealized landscapes create poetic metaphors for a dreaming dystopian society. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions in Iran and his animated films of the similar surreal nature have been screened in over twenty venues in Asia and Europe over the past six years. Sahihi is currently serving as one of the Nominators for the Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize.

Tirgan will feature a set of twelve short video animations which are part of the series
But in your head baby, I'm afraid you don't know where it is
. Titled after the popular song Somebody to Love by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane, in each piece, the viewer can discover microscopic figures who continue on their routine unaware of immanent calamity in the scene.

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