Unsettled | Sculpture | by Sha Ganjali
Sha Ganjali creates hand-built clay sculptures through a tactile, intuitive process. Sha's sculptural practice explores organic form, softness, weight and tension, creating contemporary artworks that feel grounded while leaving room for interpretation.
"I began this piece a few months ago, beginning of the Iran war.
At first, it was entirely white clay, and for a long time it didn't speak to me. It felt unresolved, awkward, almost incomplete. I nearly destroyed it. But I left it there, returning to it over and over, waiting for it to tell me what it needed to become. It wasn't until I added the black glaze that it finally revealed itself."
Suddenly, the piece began speaking about duality I was experiencing, about the constant tension between what we are told is right and wrong, good and bad, truth and untruth. We live in a time where everything is so quickly divided into black and white, where certainty is often demanded, and yet so much of our reality exists in the shades or grey in between.
During its making, I found myself surrounded by endless noise: headlines, opinions, outrage, conviction, all arriving faster than I could process them, It felt deeply unsettling to sit with so many conflicting voices, each carrying its own certainty, while feeling suspended in questions with no clear answers.
The cracked black surface partially reveals the white clay beneath. For me, those fractures represent the layers underneath every narrative, every belief, every certainty. The truth is rarely whole at first glance; it emerges in fragments, through tension,through rupture."
Medium: Recycled clay
Dimensions: 340mm x 400mm x 270mm approx
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