Bardia Saeedi, A tale in Play
From living plant installations to light, from community building to story telling — Bardia’s work has evolved toward creating immersive, story-driven exhibits.
Bardia’s projects are built on collaboration. He creates the framework—the story’s structure and the physical installation—and then others join in to transform it into something truly epic.
Explore the journey below to discover the different chapters, organized chronologically, with my current project on top.
In the Garden of Eden stands an orchard where an infinite number of Apples hang from the trees. Each Apple is a universe of its own — a world parallel to all the others.
From the fall of the Apple bitten by Adam and Eve, countless reflections and echoes were born — parallel universes suspended within the garden itself. There is a Rock Universe, a Shark Universe and … infinitely more. This is the story of the Bacon Universe.
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Garbage Town, a city in the future, 800 years from now, built and haunted by garbage
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In September 22, the Iranian movement Woman, Life, Freedom led by women nearly toppled the regime. Since then my home country of Iran has not been the same. The Iranian bus was a project in support of that movement.
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Burningman, like everything else was canceled in 2020, first year of Covid. I built an effigy on top of my school bus because — why not.
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The Hand, created in 2019, shown here in Garbage Town.
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iSheep was a Burningman 2018 honorarium art grant recipient. Shown here at Hirshhorn, Smithsonian Museum.
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A Migration Tale was my first installation that incorporated human voice to tell stories. Shown here at Hirshhorn, Smithsonian Museum in 2017.
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From 2015 to 2017 I worked with the un-housed in DC to raise awareness about homelessness through art.
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I started making art in 2011 after 25 years of bring an entrepreneur in the IT industry. I left the corporate job and went to work for a plant nursery. Soon after I started making art with live plants, then moved to LED installation and interactive, participatory art.
Some of the images in this section are from a small burn I organized in Iran in 2007. I managed to get a group of artists together in the northern mountains of Iran and we successfully had a two day art gathering in the mountains.
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