Breeze from the Past
Sepideh Shamloufard
2021 Art Produce/SDSU MFA Graduate Award Exhibit
November 1 to November 21 2021

An Interactive Video Installation

The beauty of memories is that they feel so weightless and floating in our mind and heart rather than being sharp or crisp. Our memories can reach us at any moment, anywhere, just with a touch of a specific smell, sound, and/or image.

Closing Reception: 
Saturday, November 20th 2-4pm

Additional Gallery Hours:
Sunday, November 14th 3-5pm
​Or by appointment.

About Sepideh's Work:
"It all goes back to the time I lived in Tehran, Iran. Tehran has so many different streets and allies weaving into each other and just like those streets I have built up various memories which they are weaving into each other. Through all of my work I’m being a storyteller of the time I had in Tehran and all the moments I’m living right now. My work investigates the subject of migration and each artwork is shaped by my life story they contain multilayered, fragile, suspended in time. The concept of the archive is important to my experimentation, and as I look back over its progress I can see that my work has always been about collecting ephemeral moments and poetically reimagining that information.

I believe people face events in their lives differently and this would lead them to experience time in a different manner which as a result they would accumulate memory eccentrically. This various dealing with memories make me being interested in the archive that kept within an individual mind.

I am interested in hair and its meaning among different cultures and the fact that as a part of the human body, how we cut it and it grows back, how its color changes through times, through stressful situations, and how there are the same DNA in their follicles I share with my family are some facts that I’m interested in exploring with my works.

Throughout my artworks, Persian poetry has played a big role since they reminisce of the time of poetry reading with friends and family. This ambiguity of the Persian poetry in my artwork will let people have their perception of what they are viewing, which in a way would let them link their way of supposition and have limitless discernment of different aspects from the work. Writing poetry with the Persian calligraphy pen has always had a sense of meditation to me. During the process of creating these calligraphy works, I feel that I return to another place and time. Suddenly, the noise of the pen brings me back to the present.

I believe with making art comes exposure and with exposure comes vulnerability. I create the expression and reflection of what I feel through life, the moments I am living right now, and times and places I have lived back in my country. I visualize the time and people who are not reachable so easy now for me. When I tell my story as an immigrant, I love to include all of the darkness and all of the lightness in which when I make an echo of these ups and downs I have been through as an art piece, it will be like a narrative that will beget communication between me and the viewers of my work."
About the Artist:
Sepideh Shamloufard is a third-year Graphic Design, MFA candidate at San Diego State University. She was born in Tehran-Iran in which she received her BA in "Designing/Printmaking Textile and Clothing". She has worked both as a designer and artist during her bachelor's degree. Currently, most of her work has been an integration of both areas: design and art. A major part of her projects and artworks is about the essence of her "memories" of places and people she spent time with back in her hometown. Memories and thoughts that we, as human beings, carry with us through daily life are what she loves to explore and visualize in her works.