Miha Sarani
Artist Statement
My art practice aims to explore the elements of everyday life. I am interested in framing our existence, voyeuristic responses, and the idea of duality. I find that playing with the formal elements helps me better visually represent these objectives. Intention is to bring about an exploration of a dialogue with the past while engaging with current issue; addressing cyclical occurrences throughout history, but with contemporary challenges.
My assertion is to create a juxtaposition of conceptual art and the aesthetic value; thus visually combining what I believe to be the very essence of art. For this reason, reading of my work often includes both arbitrary and conventional signs, personal assumptions mixed with stylistic representation of post-modern content. For inspiration, I examine the old as well as the new masters. The theoretical framing of my work is to move it beyond the hyped contemporary referent and trendy aesthetic that often pays less attention to content and more to approximation.
Modern viewers, I believe, have become accustomed to having art dissected and served to them, which can in my opinion devalue the artwork. Although I enjoy contemporary art and admire many of its practitioners, I strive to create something with a deeper significance; a bridge between the ancient rituals and modern viewers.
miha sarani
- email: msarani@gmail.com
- website: mihasarani.com
- Instagram: @SloveneMachine
- Facebook: SloveneMachine
- Twitter: SloveneMachine
Exhibitions
Shift Artists at Waterstone Gallery in Portland, OR
February 1 — February 28, 2023
Miha Sarani and Elizabeth N. Copland | “It Could be Said”
August 4-27, 2022
Miha Sarani – Formal Life of Color
September 2 - October 2, 2021
Q&A with William E.Marsh, Karey Kessler, David Traylor, Anna Macrae, and Miha Sarani
Q&A with the artists
Karey Kessler, Anna Macrae, Miha Sarani and David Traylor with William Marsh and music by The Vanity Host | Lost and Found
May 6 – 29, 2021 The May showing at SHIFT GALLERY features artists Karey Kessler,
Enigmatic
Miha Sarani – Jan. 2nd – Feb. 1st 2020 One of My Turns,
Miha Sarani – Jan. 2nd – Feb. 1st 2020
January 2nd-February 1, 2020
Miha Sarani
Exhibitions