Amir Farokhpour

By applying abstraction, Farokhpour creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.

His photos doesn’t reference recognizable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By exploring the concept of landscape in psychological way, he investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.

His works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. With a conceptual approach, he tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.

His works establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works fo...

Graduated from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2015

October 3 - January 17, 2021
o Carmichael Canadian Landscape @ The Orillia Museum of Art & History

November 26 - December 3, 2015
o Full Frame @ Ryerson Artspace at the Gladstone Hotel

April 27 - May 3, 2015
o Maximum Exposure Exhibition 2015 @ Ryerson Gallery

March 5 - 28, 2015
o Panoptic @ Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre

December 16 - 21, 2014
First Edition Photobook Show @ Artspace at the Gladstone

April 28 - May 28, 2014
o Maximum Exposure Exhibition 2014 @ Ryerson Gallery

April 2 - 11, 2014
o The Expanded Image @ Ryerson Artspace at the Gladstone

January 31 - April 3, 2014
o Moving On @ Elgin and Winter Garden Centre Gallery