Lament as Form

Year : 2016
Dimension : 93 × 34 cm (Height × Depth)
Weight : 6500 grams
Edition Size : Unique piece
Base Price : Sold
Artist : Mahmood Rafati
Material : Carved natural wood, symbolic metal chains, industrial metal base
Technique : Carving natural wood to shape an abstract, faceless figure; incorporating symbolic metal chains as elements of ritual mourning; and using an industrial metal base to contrast the human form with a rigid, mechanical foundation

A standing figure with burdened shoulders, raised arms, and chains suspended as emblems of mourning. Faceless and abstract in form, yet deeply human in presence. The chains are not tools of bondage or violence, but rhythmic gestures of grief, echoing Shiite mourning rituals. *Lament as Form* is a sculpture of the modern human—whose very being calls for lamentation. A body that, by standing, by