Critical Body

Where does the crisis start? Forgetfulness, hopelessness, the search for personal identity, the need for love and longing for the other or the hardships on the journey to self-awareness? Human baby, through the experience of looking at the mirror and relating the image he sees to his own body and figure, feels that for the very first time “I” (ego) exists, assumes an identity for himself; the body that was previously fragmented, now appears before his eyes as a generalized whole, integrated and unified. And this is exactly the place, in which the greatest delusion of all mankind is created. For the first time, the child finds his body in the mirror coherent and thus, the basis of the symbolic matter is shaped, however, the main reality is that each and every one of us, humans, will always remain a body comprised of pieces and will never be the masters of it, this is because the factual matter is replete with gaps and holes; it cannot be completed. It is filled with emptiness; just like these works, it is a disintegrated body that can never be entirely attained. These works are reflections of the factual matter, they attack. They endamage and disrupt the imaginary world and reveal to us the embittered fact of inability, the acrid actuality of the impossibility of pleasure. The world has no order in these works; rather, it is fluid and fragmented.

Hadi Momeni