Born in 1980 in Tehran, Iran, Payam Mofidi is a painter, video artist and an animation filmmaker currently based in Montreal. Inspired by animation techniques, character making and storytelling, he explored video art and experimental animation while studying animation in Paris and developed his own unique approach to art making by incorporating techniques used in video and animation making.
What is central to all of Payam Mofidi’s works is his unique lyrical aesthetic language and the epistemological expression he uses to narrate and create his works. In his works, he predominantly deals with paradoxical notions; agony and comfort, innocence and impurity, searching while being blindfolded, and in many cases he portrays his characters in situations in which they seem to trapped in loops that metaphorically signify the social actuality of contemporary man and the global society of control and order. Payam Mofidi’s drawings and videos are both based on real scenography, captured in time through either staged photography or videography.
Payam received a BA in graphic design in 2005 from Azad University of Art and Architecture in Tehran and graduated with honors from l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris in 2009. His works has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Iran and internationally, also as part of numerous festivals and events worldwide.