Reza Aramesh works across sculpture, drawing, embroidery, ceramics, video, and
performance, often presented as a sequence of Actions. Responding to media coverage of
international conflicts from the mid-20th century to the present, he translates these fleeting
images into sculptural form, most often in marble. Collaborating with non-professional
models, Aramesh stages reenactments of selected source material. In their transformation,
direct traces of war disappear, leaving figures displaced from their original contexts and
generating a charged tension between beauty and brutality, one that exposes the futility of
violence while questioning how conflict is represented. Situating these scenes within the
traditions of Western art history, Aramesh critically examines the representation of the
male body through the intersecting lenses of race, class, and sexuality.