Beware of this Artist

Overview

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


This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10