Statement:

Roksana Pirouzmand’s they last forever series are a psychological extension of sketches for performance ideas.

The works are slabs of clay painted upon with additional clay, allowing the artist to cut through and puncture the slabs to create actual holes in depicted spaces.

The spaces are confined, some domestic, others hygienic and clinical, just like prisons, mental institutions, or galleries. These spaces can also be metaphors for interrelations between people and countries.

As the artist states, “These bodies can be me, and they can be you, sacrificed or saviors, praying or being praised.

They can be burdensome but can also carry someone’s weight. They may have surrendered, or they might be confronting, morphing into another body.

Some are self-reflecting, looking into the void, or maybe just nauseous. They are all grieving.”