Collection: Nima Sayadian

Nima Sayadian (born 1990, Ramsar, Iran) is a painter whose work explores the state of threshold; a space between presence and absence, action and stillness, where experience itself takes on a liminal form. In his Beekeeper series (2019–2022), he translates this suspension into visual language: figures hovering between being and non-being, set within desaturated landscapes that approach silence. The inability to act in these works is not a weakness, but a form of contemplation and endurance. The influence of Angelopoulos’s cinema in the formation of these works appears as a subtle intensification of such atmospheres rather than a direct narrative source. Through his use of gray tones and minimal elements, Sayadian investigates moments in which boundaries dissolve and hesitation gives rise to meaning. He holds an M.A. in Painting from Islamic Azad University (Science and Research Branch, Tehran) and has exhibited at Mohsen Gallery, Artibition, and the Iranian Artists Forum.