DREAM BABY

Dream Baby

A body engaging a mold—the mold—a plaster cast of ceramic baby dolls. Not original objects, but reproductive forms. Not the finished figure, but the negative space that allows the figure to emerge again and again. This mold, which has accompanied me across geographies, across time, becomes a stand-in for continuity—a continuity that is itself a fiction.

The performance does not attempt coherence. It stages the process of reassembly: the piecing together of selves, of lives, from residues and fragments. There is no stable narrative here, only repetition with variation. The mold functions not as origin but as residue—of a former project, a former studio, a former self. It insists on its own utility while revealing its obsolescence.

What does it mean to carry the form but not the content? To repeat a gesture in an altered context? What remains of you when continuity is performed rather than lived?

It is not about the doll. It is not about the baby. It is about the labor of making, unmaking, and remaking, over and over, under conditions that rarely allow rest. It is the performance of survival within the aesthetics of rupture.

The sculpture Dream Baby rests inside a glass box. The light refracts to form the illusion of a three-dimensional baby face—a mirage of wholeness conjured from absence. Not as a portrait, but a projection. The baby does not return. It is dreamt.

1200°C is a threshold: an archive of temperatures. Formulated clay becomes a record of how matter behaves under force.
 

Untitled sculptures are from the Series of Material Playground.

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sara boroujeni
ir / de
artist , material explorer

 

ehsan ḡoreishi
ir / us / es
artist , musician