Narmine Sadeg
WORKS
My City Lost Its Name
The Unsettled City
Digital video, 13 min. 17 sec., 2023
Published in PLace Art Magazine, special issue
https://publication.place-plateforme.com/hors-serie14-narmine-sadeg/
My City Lost Its Name is a work in progress addressing my memories of the city I was born in and where I lived until the age of 13. It was a small city in Iran, built in the late 1920s by Reza Shah of the Pahlavi dynasty and named Shahi in his honor. When the Islamic regime took power in 1979, it established a policy to minimize the traces and references to former kings. The new regime revised how history was taught in schools, changed names of many streets, cities, institutions, and even banned first names including the word Shah (meaning king in Persian). Thus the name of my hometown was wiped off from all maps. The Islamic government renamed the city Ghaemshahr in reference to a Shiite Saint of 10th century.
At first the new name did not seem to bear real consequences, because the city continued to exist under its new name, but over time, the memories of the city gradually lost their points of reference. The city of yesterday became a floating one, an unsettled city.
Digital
animation
Finding the right place for everything
FROM THE SERIES UNSETTLED MIND, 2022
Digital video/animation, 1 minute 38 seconds, playing in continuous loop
Produced for an online publication:
https://publication.place-plateforme.com/place4/narmine-sadeg1/
Digital
animation
Young man and his double
FROM THE SERIES UNSETTLED MIND, 2022
Interactif work, drawings and texts with hotspots.
Produced for an online publication:
https://publication.place-plateforme.com/place4/narmine-sadeg2/
On the online interactive version you can rollover the mouse over hotspots to discover texts.
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relations
FROM THE SERIES UNSETTLED MIND, 2021
Video spot with text and animation, 3 minutes 2 seconds.
Produced for an online publication:
https://publication.place-plateforme.com/place4/narmine-sadeg3/
Digital
animation
Woman Life Freedom
2023
Produced for an online publication:
https://publication.place-plateforme.com/place5/narmine-sadeg/
Digital
dynamic
animation
People and things
Un unsettled readymade fiction, 2020
Produced for an online publication:
https://publication.place-plateforme.com/place5/narmine-sadeg/
People and Things is built with drawings that, some small exceptions notwithstanding, all come from databases of invention patents which are currently obsolete and in the public domain. These databases of several million inventions are accessible on the Google patents site. For several years I have been browsing with great curiosity a huge number of these patents, which very often contain drawings. I was more particularly interested in those representing human figures and made up a personal archive with them. Produced in very different periods, these drawings, none of which have artistic purposes, show how an invention, often an object, functions. It always seemed to me that through this characteristic each figure belonged to a story, like characters in an absent novel.
People and Things offers various combinations of these characters as well as these invented objects, together with words and sentences describing them. The work is a dynamic setting that establishes virtually endless correlations between them, in order to construct an upcoming fiction. In theory, there are over 95 trillion possible situations.
Digital
animation
Drama
Unsettled words, unsettled stories
An ongoing project, 2020
Produced for an online publication :
https://www.place-plateforme.com/place2/narmine-sadeg–drama.html
Creation of
an online
art magazine
Place art magazine
Since 2019
Co-founder/co-director and designer of PLACE, an online artist-run magazine.
PLACE showcases a range of experimental and recent creations, in visual arts as well as in literature (French/English). These works are supplemented by a series of critical exchanges allowing us to take the measure of the challenges of the contemporary art.
Declarations
Work-in-progress created in 2016 for online presentation.
An ever-changing virtual space, a kind of personal tribune, for recording declarations related to feelings and reflections to social and political facts and events. As new declarations are recorded, older ones may be discarded.
CONTACT :
studio@narminesadeg.com