Sara Rajaei

Sara RAJAEI (1976, Iran) is an Iranian/Dutch video artist and filmmaker based in the Netherlands. She graduated from the University of the Arts in Tehran and the Royal Academy for Visual Arts in the Hague, where she specialised in 3D art. After graduation in 2002, Rajaei attended a 2-year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam. In her work, she studies the notion of time by reflecting on the absence of image, memory psychology, oral history, narrative techniques, and physical/psychological space. She mainly works with short films and video installations. Her works have been shown at various festivals and exhibitions worldwide, including De Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Stiftelsen 3,14 in Bergen, and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka. In 2009, she was awarded the Prix de Rome.

Filmography

(selection, all short) untitled (01-cliche series) (2000, series), untitled (02-cliche series) (2001, series), veronica & chantur (03-cliche series) (2001, series), lida (04-cliche series) (2002, series), do not avoid me (05-cliche series) (2002, series), three meters (06-cliche series) (2003, series), untitled (for marvin) (2002), a day of amnesia (2004), while on my way (2004), the savior (2005), charismatic fates & vanishing dates (2006), since we’ve moved here (2007), shahrzad (2009), forever for a while (2009), a leap year that started on a Friday (2010), objects of purely sentimental value (2010), 1978 the 231st day (2012), the picture must begin as a poem (2013), there was the dream and there was a memory connected with it (2015), in the gaze of panoptes (2016), a composition in blue, red & other colours (2017), yet another leap year (2022)

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