Sahar Homami (They/She), an Iranian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist and researcher from Tehran, residing between Berlin, Cairo, and Montreal, blends art, technology, philosophy, and literature to delve into the intricacies of the human condition. Homami’s multidisciplinary approach, influenced by mystical philosophies and global literature, is primarily rooted in practices akin to Sufism and Taoist thought, emphasizing introspection, interconnectedness, and collective consciousness. Their work engages with techno-mysticism and decolonial aesthetics, seeking to reveal how perception itself can act as resistance and remembrance.
Their practice integrates computer art, storytelling, and mysticism, exploring altered states of consciousness through image and sound. With academic foundations in engineering, Persian calligraphy, and computation arts, their projects span audiovisual performance and installation, augmented reality, printmaking, and calligraphy art.
Since 2015, they have developed projects showcased at MUTEK Montréal/Mexico, Bright Festival Connect, HELLERAU, INSCAPE, Festival X, Stereolux, Rotondes, Tehran Contemporary Sounds, the Berlin Music Video Awards, and Abuja Art Week, among other events.
Artist Statement
I am a storyteller. My stories unfold across sound, image, language, and code — in real time, through shifting layers of perception. I work with audiovisual performance, installation, and digital or analog calligraphy to shape experiences that weave mysticism, embodiment and consciousness with technology, structure and machines. Humans have always been and will always be storytellers. Digital technologies can be used to (re)tell our stories, like a mirror, to portray the condition of our individual and collective existence.
My practice explores how perception, memory, and consciousness are shaped by and shape digital systems. Technology becomes a living collaborator, a mirror that reflects and distorts, a language that breathes. From this dialogue emerges what I call live poetic cinema — generative worlds of sound and light where poetry, philosophy, and code meet in the act of creation.
Rooted in mystic traditions such as Sufism and Taoist thought, my work reimagines ancient knowledge through contemporary forms. Language and calligraphy play central roles in my art. Words are more than mere communication; they are vessels for deeper reflection. Calligraphy acts as both language and landscape (a rhythm of thought sculpted in time). Through digital calligraphy and generative design, I transform words into spatial gestures, giving motion to meaning and stillness to sound. My calligraphic works, both analogue and digital, are meditative landscapes that invite viewers to engage with the written word as a sculptural, temporal experience.
Research drives my conceptual and technical process, connecting art, science, and philosophy to explore how technology might hold traces of spiritual experience. Each piece becomes an experiment in perception: a meditation on presence, transformation, and the boundaries between the organic and the synthetic.
Art, for me, is inherently political. My artistic practice is shaped by the socio-political realities I navigate. I resist systems that reduce, tokenize, categorize, or domesticate experience. My work speaks against control and conformity, favouring poetic disobedience, radical tenderness, and quiet yet loud rebellion. I see art as a site of re-enchantment, where empathy and intuition reclaim value over profit and dominance.
Through sound, code, and language, I seek to awaken perception, to invite moments of remembrance, expansion, and encounter. My practice is a call to reimagine our ways of sensing and being, where the ephemeral and the eternal breathe within the same gesture.
- Sahar Homami
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