Artist Statement

Faraz Ghorbanpour’s works reinterprets our contemporary world through stopmotion animation and found footage of his daily life. Throughout his life, he existed as an outsider in predominantly privileged exclusionary spaces. While observing those realities, art became the escape from the societally enforced ideas in daily life. On witnessing how hierarchical and social values affect his life, he studied political, communal, and social movements which heavily informed his practice. From crafting his own toys to studying in sculpture studios, he now expresses his ideas through stopmotion animation. The surreal animations with a muted gray clay interact with the physical world around it. Ghorbanpour reflects how we can change the world. With messages meant to disrupt the minds of people, he inspires hope in knowing that we are able to change the world around us through noticing the flaws and acting upon them.