Sepand Danesh
Biography
Sepand Danesh (b. 1984, Tehran) is an Iranian contemporary artist based in Paris who explores identity, transformation, and the paradoxes of contemporary existence in our hyperconnected age. Employing Euclidean geometry, Danesh creates large scale compositions through painted cube shapes that generate pixelated forms, referencing our digital landscape whilst interrogating the psychological territories of displacement and belonging. Danesh's practice explores 'the dynamic of the Hub', examining how ideas burst forth and circulate in our interconnected world.
The metaphorical Hub represents confinement, whether physical, cultural, linguistic, or existential to represent escape and transformation. Danesh's large scale canvases and no visible interior confinement offer a cognitive dialect due to the scale of the trompe l’œil compositions, inviting viewers to physically confront the psychological and existential states he investigates.
This tension reflects his exploration of identity transformation induced by trauma, drawing from his personal history as an Iranian immigrant whose family fled Iran during war. His subsequent migration to France, where he learned a new language and adapted to a new culture, informs his artistic investigation of upheaval, loss, and the struggle to belong.
Through his distinctive visual language of painted geometric cubes and optical illusions, Danesh captures the fragmented nature of contemporary identity, where personal narratives intersect with collective memory in the digital age. His work invites viewers into spaces both familiar and strange, challenging us to navigate visual puzzles whilst confronting questions of belonging and transformation that define contemporary experience. The artist's large format canvases facilitate the detailed rendering of his signature grid systems, creating heuristic spaces that provoke reflection and embody the complexity of identity and memory.
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