Sayah Art & Design Foundation
The artist is always looking for a way to escape from systematic structures and limitations. Creative methods that not only remove him from restrictions and prohibitions, but also give him a special image. Due to the increase in restrictions and systematic bans by the Iranian government, as well as the high number of design exhibitions, the Sayah Foundation has created an online gallery to find talent and curate the works of art academy students and graduates in Iran.
Sayah Gallery is one of the subgroups of Sayah Art Foundation, which works with artists and creates a path for creation, seeks to create a way of selecting works with the intellectual and cultural atmosphere of Iran today, in presenting art works. The artists selected by Sayah Gallery are students and graduates who have achieved their personal worldview and an image of the individual can be seen in them. This gallery, with regard to visual arts as well as interdisciplinary arts, tries to provide new ways to communicate directly and without an audience with the artist and the artwork.
Sayah Studio
Sayah is an independent art and design foundation that, in addition to visual identity design, design and filmmaking, carries out projects aimed at literacy, creative and critical thinking of teenagers through the creation of works of art. One of the projects of this foundation is seeing beyond seeing, which started with two workshops on design thinking and personal filmmaking in 2022. All people related to the Sayah are art students and graduates who create works independently and freely. The focus of this foundation is on designing posters, visual identity of institutions, as well as training and making short films and documentaries.
Sayah & Seeing Beyond Seeing Projects
The basis of the “seeing beyond seeing” project is protest. A pragmatic reaction to the inefficiency of the social and educational structure that is devoid of human values.In fact, the meaning of design is also like this; Looking at and finding a creative solution to a problem. The truth is, we have learned the most worthless subjects in the worst teaching methods, none of which provide any solution to our real life. Even the definition of literacy imposed on us is ineffective and useless.
This is where foundations and independent cultural centers become important and by using new methods, they compensate for this lack and restore the educational seasons. In Sayah Foundation, teenagers learn to look at the surrounding environment and face biological issues through various projects and try to provide solutions for these issues in small steps. They learn how to let go of the fear of judgment and nurture their ideas with confidence.
They learn that the most important factor suppressing creativity is internal. Just when a person accepts to be according to the accepted pattern and structure of the society and avoids change. Tom Kelly says; “Most of us are born creative, but over time we learn to stifle our creative impulses.” So far, Sayah Studio has organized four “seeing beyond seeing” projects with the participation of NGOs and cultural centers related to teenagers.