Shima Faridani © 2010-2012 | Designed by Shahab Tondar 

Personal Statement
My perception of the world of art is to find an unlimited atmosphere where I should know myself. Entering this world is to face the new experiences. Exploring the new aspects of life and considering them with other insights in which I am every day, I breathe, think, see, explore, know, get happy, and cry. I learn from these experiences and their reflection exists in my paintings.

The background of my works is in a pervasive red tending to be used metaphorically. Although this color contains lot of energy, working on it is hard. Consequently it can affect the other colors added to my work and almost the other parts of the picture such as forms, elements and motifs.

Another purpose of choosing red is to attract the observers and cease them to see the art work so that the color red recalls them. In the next step, the observer pursues expressive and figurative relations, and on the basis of their thoughts there will be new perspectives away from mind reality. Apart from the colors key role and the created visual space, this private atmosphere has an expressive identity which its formation initiates by breeding an idea in my mind. Never does a predetermined sketch exists. The art work is accomplished through performance and some parts maybe added or omitted.

The next method for my ideas is writing about different events and incidents which happen every day in private life, society, news, and world. All of them create a plot to write and bring an idea forward with their effects.

Dwelling in a land whose opposingly flawed and suppressive reality has repelled me from the brutal society’s realities to solitude and structural objection, are led to suspension in the piece message and use of coded language.

The leading space in my art works is two-dimensional along with the illusion of three-dimensional space; nevertheless collages are used to change the atmosphere in my new works. The salient textures and body colors are added through with real objects to change the two-dimensional space. The purpose of adding mentioned objects is creating a new environment to compare the reality and illusion. The reality serves the illusion occasionally and due to the illusionary two-dimensional atmosphere, the real added objects are merged with illusion resulting in loss of their main essence. At times, the reality gets ahead of the illusion, which for creating new visual relations in my artworks such element is used efficiently. Therefore they are followed in the picture.

Observing my artwork, people might find them terrifying, wrathful, and may see a sort of strangulation and metamorphosis. These are seen in my artwork and born by subconscious, assimilated into my consciousness. They would probably change as time passes. However there is no border in my point of view therefore my interiorities are indicated by no means of censorship. These are what I figured out from the observers’ feedbacks.

In variant collection of mine, I have tried to show the atmosphere of my mind to the observer by exhibiting it in an imaginary and vague way. There is no purpose to compel the subject but the painterly behavior and use of red color in background. The choice of limited colors, symbols, and forms contain the main role. Eventually these elements are there to complete the composition of artwork and separated from the symbolic and metaphorical analysis.