Saman Sajasi

The work presented here explores my changing culture and its correlative effects on my identity and social conduct. It also embraces cultural baggage with a flamboyant pride, recalling the elements of Iranian culture that counteract its repressive systems. Uniting Persian-Islamic with baroque sensibilities, this work aims to undermine prevalent notions of an alien, isolated Islamic world.

My art originates in my complicated relationship with my culture and the need to find a place where I feel rooted and secure. I am Iranian. I am American. And, at times, I am neither.