Artist Talk | Sara Faridamin: A Lived Temporality

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Join the Deer Lake Gallery to hear from artist Sara Faridamin and explore the concept of everyday life and the relation between time, place, and space on the streets through her exhibition, A Lived Temporality.

Sara Faridamin is a photographer based in Vancouver. Her exhibition at the DLG presents her experiences and memories of moving to new places in the past 13 years. This series of photographs began in 2011, when she was studying in South-East London, UK. A Lived Temporality continues in Montreal and ends in Vancouver in 2023.

A Lived Temporality is a long-term photography project that presents three series of photographs narrating her experiences of moving to three new cities through images captured only from her room’s window. Faridamin’s photography practice is based on exploring the concept of rhythm in everyday life, characterized by mundane and repetitive activities. She contemplates the factors by which we recognize and remember a place. It can be a significant or a trivial feature which surprisingly becomes unique when their own rhythms are discovered and experienced. Questioning the relation between time, space and its temporality, Faridamin attempts to document public spaces as fundamentally social and alive. Her photographs record and reflect her personal account of living within and experiencing those spaces using visual auto-ethnography methods to understand contemporary urban life.

‘The freedom of being a newcomer gives one a chance to be naive and astonished by matters mundane to others’. – Sara Faridamin