Untitled (Meeting)

Why does conversation with strangers take place? How do we present ourselves to each other? What do we talk about? This project shows human contact through conversation, people who don’t know each other and probably won’t meet again. For a short period of time we find each other interesting, or pretend that we do. In a time when closeness and social meetings are fading through the benefit of modern technology, I find non-formal meetings very accurate for what we are as humans.

Saman Kamyab
Born in Iran. Works with video, photography and installations; he has (BA) from Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Photography and (MA) from National Academy of Fine Art in Bergen. Kamyab's approach to projects is mainly about individuals within social frames, by using material from human geography and anthropology. His newer works show fragments of human activity, that do not have a eventful or spectacular content, but situations where relational structure is in focus. Kamyab is also exhibiting with ”Don’t forget you are here forever” Gallery Blunk Trondheim, Gallery 21:25 Oslo 2006. Independent Short Film & Video Awards Festival, Hong Kong 2006. Contemporary Art exhibition at NORD culture festival in Berlin 2006.