"When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss" – Alberto Giacometti

Elongated, coarse and ethereal, Dadkhah's "Passage" series attempts to capture in sculpture the narrow fault lines between body and spirit, in an attempt to give physical embodiment to mans primal qualities. 

Inspired by Giacometti, whose sculptures focused on the relationship between the body and the void and the "erosion" that man underwent by his surroundings, Dadkhah depicts figures who are at once monumental yet fading. 

Giacometti once commented that "space is a cancer on being and eats everything", similarly, Dadkhah's figure almost evaporates upwards, slowly shedding the weight of existence, which for Dadkhah as with Sartre, was considered as much a burden as it was a privilege. 

As such, Dadkhah's figure does not rue, but solemnly embraces its physical exhaustion; with head tilted upwards it is drawn magnetically to a celestial unknown, where the shackles of physicality and afflictions of the flesh find their cessation.