ABOUT THE ARTISTS
A Collaborative Practice of Sculpture, Memory, and Transformation
Mehraneh Jafari and Arzhang Mahajan work as contemporary Iranian artists whose shared practice brings together sculpture, research, narrative, and material experimentation.
THE COLLABORATION
Metamorphosis is a collaborative contemporary art practice founded by Iranian artists Arzhang Mahajan and Mehraneh Jafari. Bringing together sculpture, artistic research, philosophy, visual storytelling, and material experimentation, their work explores themes of transformation, memory, resilience, identity, and renewal. Working with stone, resin, crystals, precious minerals, feathers, and gold, they create symbolic sculptural forms that bridge personal narratives and collective experience. Through a dialogue between concept and material, their practice investigates how objects can embody memory, healing, liberation, and human transformation.
ARTIST PROFILES
Mehraneh Jafari
ARTIST · RESEARCHER · EDUCATOR
Mehraneh Jafari is an Iranian visual artist and researcher whose work explores memory, narrative, and transformation. Through artistic research and visual storytelling, she investigates the relationship between personal experience, cultural memory, and contemporary life. Within Metamorphosis, she contributes to the conceptual development, research process, and narrative structure of the collaboration.
Arzhang Mahajan
SCULPTOR • ART RESEARCHER • PHILOSOPHER OF ART
Arzhang Mahajan is an Iranian contemporary sculptor, researcher, and philosopher of art whose work explores transformation, memory, symbolism, and the human condition. Combining sculptural practice with philosophical inquiry, he investigates the relationship between material, identity, vulnerability, and resilience. Working with stone, resin, crystals, precious minerals, feathers, and gold, Mahajan transforms natural materials into symbolic structures that reflect healing, freedom, rebirth, and human transformation.
RESEARCH THEMES
Material Memory
Stone, minerals, resin, feathers, and gold function as vessels of memory, carrying traces of fracture, healing, and transformation.
Transformation
The practice investigates processes of vulnerability, resilience, liberation, and renewal through symbolic sculptural forms.
Collaborative Research
Working across sculpture, philosophy, artistic research, and storytelling, the studio develops projects through dialogue and collaboration.