Statement: 

 In the Absence of Space

No eye remembers the moment when light passes to another eye The event horizon is where the image ends, and thinking begins peakBASE is the moment when horizontal depiction devours vertical understanding. Hence, the moment of seeing begins. I remember the tag game, I don't remember it clearly, and I never learnt the rules, not even as a child, and no one explained it to me. So I never bound myself to the rules of the game. I remember one or two people played it. One would be the free player who had to chase you instantly, and you were to get to somewhere higher. This somewhere could be one or several steps higher than the ground. As soon as the free player touched the other player, players changed roles, the one on the top would descend, and the one on the bottom would ascend.///

I understand both players; I have been in their shoes. When I was the free player, I felt lonely and afraid, and when this moment of loneliness was prolonged, I would feel desperate at the bottom of a pit. But when roles changed, I would attempt to reach the highest heights to observe others, my eyes would sparkle, and my smile would taunt the others. I feel sure that men are inclined to ascend, a reminder of Rumi's poem: "From the heavens, we've come, and there we're heading" The notion behind the poem is something burning deep within our souls; when we climb the highest peak in Iran, we feel this urge to land our flag, and we would fall, the flag won't go down any further; I feel secluded in my soul. I collapse and doubt my existence. I feel I'm collapsing even when I'm at the highest point, my knees bend, and I stare into the deep void in front of my eyes. The fall devours me. Why do I see nothing? What if I've gone blind? Why do I hear nothing? I call for someone, and no one hears me; I reach out and can't touch anything; I'm panting, I'm worried, I remember the days gone by, I revisit my life, all the pleasures and displeasures. Eventually, I feel numb; I lose my breath; we feel suffocated; we are being silenced.
Vatttan Project Spring, June 2022

In the "Recycled" series, Shafieezadeh uses his previous works and transforms them into new pieces. To create his new works at "peakBASE", he has used pieces from the "Negative Posi-tive Space" series (displayed in 2016) and subsequently has changed the title to "Hanging".Following the “Dredge" series (presented at Emkan Gallery, 2016), the concept of “pit" startled Ghazali. He set to document deep pits, subsidence and excavations. Ghazali states that the moment one is trapped in a pit, where the image of a savior seems impossible, one is left with only an idea of a savior in their mind. Ghazali stands in a pit to re-create that moment; he looks around and documents what he sees.