Figure of a Seated Man #5

About the work

A painted seated figure whose posture recalls a man on a throne, yet whose soft body and ambiguous smile drain that authority away, leaving the figure caught between ruler and witness. Shown in May the Tree No Longer Burn When I Wake at Carbon 12, Khojasteh's first body of work made after leaving Iran, which imagines the gallery as a twisted Persian garden overlooking a landscape of ash.