Janan Siam

In the mind’s eye, a memory is fragmented, choppy, and unclear, yet completely comprehensible. There is no more physicality to the experience; it is memory is left to the mutable mind. Upon recollection, presentational immediacy dictates much of what is “remembered”—or rather, what is perceived as memory. A realization of this phenomenology of memory-recollection provides me with new therapeutic tool with which to study my past. I hope my audience will delve into these topics, such as the extreme subjectivity of consciousness and the reliability of memory as a means to accurately depict anything in the past. Though metaphysics and subjectivity seem to be at odds, I believe that the variable perceptions of individuals are made meta through the inescapable involvement of objective universal constants: space and time.

Education

2011

BA, Art and Performance, The University of Texas Dallas, Richardson, TX.

Upcoming/Current Exhibitions

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Group Exhibitions

2012

500X Juried Expo, 500X, Dallas TX - ends March 4.
For The Love of the Artist, Kettle Art, Dallas, TX.
The Fab 50, Soda Gallery, Dallas TX.
Art Party 6 Collective Exhibition, Absinthe Lounge, Dallas, TX.


2011

Art Party 5 Collective Exhibition, Absinthe Lounge, Dallas, TX.
Aurora 2011, Dallas Arts District, Dallas, TX.
Solvent 3, Second Floor Gallery, McKinney, TX.
Solvent 2, Second Floor Gallery, McKinney, TX.
Solvent 1, Second Floor Gallery, McKinney, TX.
Fountain, UT Dallas Visual Arts Studio, Richardson, TX.
Art Party 4 Collective Exhibition, Lower Greenville Alternative Space, Dallas, TX.
Art Party 3 Collective Exhibition, Lower Greenville Alternative Space, Dallas, TX.
Art Party 2 Collective Exhibition, East Plano House Alternative Space, Plano, TX.


2010

Aurora 2010, Dallas Heritage Village, Dallas, TX.
College Expo 2010, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX.
Times Twenty Plus Version II, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX.
Times Twenty Plus, Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas, TX.

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