Danyal Imani - Artist Statement

Collected ingredients bring inherent energy and potential. In time, with patience, these newly combined and layered elements lead to unexpected destinations.

My collage work is created with fragments of paper and recycled imagery collected from my daily life and wanderings. I am particularly fascinated with the often-overlooked backgrounds, colours, textures, shapes, and negative spaces in everyday printed materials. The process of deconstructing images and then re-integrating many pieces, to create something completely new, is an intuitive and ongoing visual experiment. No matter what media I work in, what seems to be created is a work dominated by texture, pattern, and design. I use many media, including, handmade paper, found objects, acrylics, pastel, printmaking, watercolour, ceramics, and most recently fabric.

Biography

Danyal Imani (b.1993 Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian visual artist based in Vancouver, Canada. Working with painting and collage he explores the energetic and cellular relationship between human contact and emotions. He has also assisted in curating exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Burnaby Art Gallery, and The Surrey City Hall. Danyal is currently a student at Simon Fraser University attaining his Bachelor of Fine Arts.