Pegah Pasalar
Next to the South 2026 جنب جنوب
From the ongoing project Exodus Pathology
Hand-blown glass, metal pinboards, cinder blocks, shrink plastic, and flashlight
Glass 10 × 4.5 × 8.5
installation with variable dimension
This installation dwells in the uneasy space between balance and collapse, where equilibrium exists only under constant threat. Shrink plastic tightens around cement bricks like a held breath, while a fragile glass form—bruised, scarred, and visibly strained—bears the marks of pressure and survival. Pinboards press against the shrink-wrapped surface, outlining and framing the glass as well as the edges of the plastic wrap.
Viewers are handed a flashlight and invited into a slow act of searching. Light glides across transparent glass, activating reflections and distortions that echo early cinematic technologies. The work remains perpetually unstable and mutable, shifting with every movement of light. The work seduces only to invite a viewer in, to reveal a condition of precariousness.
Pegah Pasalar
Homonym of the South 2024 جناس جنوب
From the ongoing project Exodus Pathology
Hand-blown glass, transparent air-filled balloons, cinder blocks, light
Glass 10 × 4.5 × 8.5
installation with variable dimension
This work presents a single referent — the form of an inflated balloon — twice: once as a rigid glass body marked by heat and pressure, and once as an air-filled surface that functions as a shifting and deforming pedestal. The glass depends on the inflatable structure for its suspension, while the inflatable slowly loses form under its weight. Through this interdependence, the sculpture establishes a system of tension in which stability is provisional and resistance is located not in hardness but in elasticity. Since the inflatable continuously sags and loses air, the work unfolds in time, operating as a performative, time-based material condition rather than a fixed sculptural object.
