Memory & Experience | Navid Sanati
Memory & Experience
featuring two digital art series by Navid Sanati
About Navid
Navid Sanati is a digital artist currently based in Los Angeles. He got his MFA in Film/Video from
Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Since then he moved to Los Angeles to practice his visual skills in Hollywood.
His personal artworks has been shown in many festivals such as Arte Laguna in Venice, International youth art biennale in Nanjing, ArtNova 100 in Beijing, and many other exhibitions and screenings in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston.
Navid is now experimenting with a mix of different mediums. His artworks are characterized by the use of everyday life issues in which recognition plays an important role. By manipulating the viewer to create confusion, his works are questioning the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience. They mostly reference recognizable forms but the results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted.
The Tides
As I do self-analyzing a lot, time and memory always play a key role in my projects.
In this experiment, I tried to write down some of the objects that I could remember from my dreams, fast and without thinking so they can come right
out of my unconsciousness. Later I tried to go deep down in my memory to realize why these objects came out first and what kind of spaces and memories these objects trigger in my mind.
And the whole process resulted in the creation of this series. The images were composited in photoshop and went through some codec manipulations to get the glitchy effect, and then they were animated in After Effects.
The visualization of these memories appears as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet.
Global Bending
Mixed with the concet of virtual reality, through this series I tried to illustrate the violent affect of human activities on animals and environment.
