''The genesis of this project was a visit to Montserrat, where the strange, phallic formations of the mountain range rise around a Benedictine monastery first founded in 1025. The encounter brought together two forms of the sacred: one constructed through religion and ritual, the other embedded in the landscape itself. The mountains appeared bodily—erotic, generative, almost anatomical—and suggested a continuity between sexuality and spirituality, fertility and death, the human body and the geological one. From this initial encounter emerged a broader interest in pilgrimage as a movement through these thresholds: between the sacred and the profane, body and landscape, birth and dissolution, the material world and what might exist beyond it. Across the work, bodies are veiled, exposed, or transformed; landscapes take on the qualities of bodies, while bodies seem to return to landscape. These recurring forms suggest a cycle of emergence, decay and return. Pilgrimage becomes one expression of this movement: a physical passage toward a threshold, where the body is worn down and ordinary structures temporarily fall away. Victor Turner described this condition as the liminal; a state “betwixt and between,” in which one has departed from one state, without yet arriving at another.''
Pegah Farahmand