Magzoid Magazine - Luxury Magazine in the Creative Space | December 2023 |

The titles of the artworks are described as evocative palindromes
shared between pairings. Could you elaborate on the
significance of these titles? How do they contribute to the
overarching theme of commonality and departure within the
exhibition?
We each use our own unique naming conventions for our artworks:
Jason’s titles often reference books or music that he is
engaging with while working on a particular piece while Nima’s
titles are simply the dates when the works were completed. For this
collaboration, we felt we needed a new naming convention that
was meaningful to the essence of the exhibition. The idea to use
palindromes was a nod to the notion of seeing the same thing from
two different perspectives. The titles of the works; Tenet, Level,
Civic, Radar and Noon all remain the same whether they are read
forwards or backwards. For us, it was less about the meanings
of the actual words and more about the design structure of each
word, the symmetry of their mirrored building blocks.
Both artists, Nabavi and Seife, seem to employ different mediums
and techniques. How did the stark differences in their
approaches, such as Seife’s bold flatness and Nabavi’s intricate
layering, influence the overall aesthetic of the exhibition?
How did these differences create a symbiotic relationship in
the artistic narrative?
The resonant commonality in our works is the complexity and
detail that exists within a very ordered and symmetric composition.
Each of us employs color in our own way, Jason mixing his
on a palette before applying them by brush to a smooth flat finish
on canvas, while Nima builds his up one line-layer at a time with
rulered pen strokes directly on the final surface. We are essentially
using different tools and methods to build our own unique renditions
of the same idea. We feel however that the difference in the
resultant aesthetic of the pieces actually works to highlights their
points of similarity. Each individual work in a pair may have its own
unique manifestation, but their essence remains the same.
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