Statement:

Mohammadreza Khalaji's sculptures, with their poetic yet unsettling engagement with the human body, invite the viewer to a fresh encounter with the concepts of identity, stability, and transformation.

At times, a body appears inverted, with its feet pointing toward the sky and its torso submerged in a flat surface, as if paused between collapse and an unknown ascension.///

This inversion challenges not only the law of gravity but also the conventional logic of perceiving the human form, compelling the audience to relearn the act of seeing.

Elsewhere, a figure stands with an unstable body - between animal and human, between clothing and skin - seemingly undergoing metamorphosis or rebirth.

The sharp edges and incomplete formation of the face and torso speak of a fragmentation of identity - of a being that belongs neither to the past nor fully to the future.

The cutting forms and rough-carved surfaces remind us that the body is also a site for inscribing history and suffering.

These works are not merely representations of the body but rather a visual expression of humanity’s suspension in an unsettled world - a world where bodily certainty has yielded to doubt, transition, and transformation.

The combination of timelessness and placelessness in the execution is accompanied by an existentialist approach, posing a fundamental question: when form is emptied of meaning, how does it reconstruct itself?

Hamidreza Karami