Playing And Reality

BY SAM SAMIEE

Private Time, Public Space

BY SAM SAMIEE

Sam Samiee (Tehran, Iran) is a painter, essayist, and psychoanalyst in training based in Berlin and Tehran. Sam Samiee synthesizes his heavy research on art history, Persian poetry, and psychoanalytic theories into studio practice that employs painting in multiple registers. The characteristic of his installations as extended paintings is the break from the tradition of flat painting and a return to the original question of how artists can represent the three-dimensional world in the painting space as a metaphor for a set of ideas. He employs a range of painterly attitudes, from oil paintings to iPad paintings, figuration, abstraction, the break of the rectangular frame, and usage of text, among other methods.