Sam Samiee

Footnotes To Life' comprises a visual overview of Samiee's painting oeuvre and international career. The book's publication has been made possible as part of the Wolvecamp Prize 2018, and with support from Mondriaan Fonds. Footnotes to Life is among the Dutch Book Design Award winners of 2020 with an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in September 2021. The book is in three parts, introduced by Benno Tempel, Director of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag and curator of the last Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale, an exhibition section of a decade of exhibitions by the artist, followed by the last chapter of the book which elaborates on the research, visual and textual references, as well as a glimpse into the studio practice of Sam Samiee. Timely perspectives on ethics and aesthetics are developed in the last section of the book with contributing authors interwoven with extensive endnotes by the artist. The book includes a short essay by Dr. Gohar Homayounpour, internationally renowned author and founder of the Freudian Group of Tehran, and a conversation between Dr. Sumayya Kassamali, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto with the artist, engages the reader in an adventurous recalling of expansive encounters between poetry, ideology, psychoanalysis, feminism, Islam, and Persianate concepts in global contexts.