Project Description

In his new body of works Ramin Haerizadeh depicts multiple reproductions of
the self, as fractured, mirrored, morphed, amorphous, cross-gendered, bestial, a
Kafkaesque indeterminate creature with a distinctly evolved phallicism. The brutally
dark humour, the anti-coercive raging vendetta, the transformation and deformation
of the semi-human figure (the self), consciously or subconsciously, signal persistent
internal combats with that which is allowed to be seen, shown or known. Haerizadeh
uses concealment ambivalently, both as a metaphor for oppression and a container
of safety. Safety itself constitutes a dual defensive avoidance of violence from within
and without.
Vali Mahlouji ‘Beware of this Image’

Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

April 2011