Solo Show at Decollage

In Transit is an exhibition of the series Melody Hesaraky started during the pandemic. It is the projection of rediscovering the body and movement through photographs and illustrations. All the movement, emotions and human instincts. The project was developed by discussing pain, joy, fear, happiness, sadness and anger and their connection to the body movement of the models involved. As a result, In Transit emerged, exploring opposites and extremes, emphasizing purgatory and transition.

The first series of the exhibition, In Transit, consists of photographs taken with Hesaraky’s body art drawn on models. Hesaraky’s lines oscillate between chaos and order, emphasizing body form and movement, representing motion in stillness. One of the other series in the exhibition, Human, deals with body representations in different forms. The Series The Most Gentle Touch deals with movement in lines, getting from one place to another and the transition between two places.

Time – the difference between the previous moment and the present moment – is change. This change can only occur through movement. Humanity is constantly moving. It moves in a timeline that is constantly evolving. Metropolises are stuck in flows quickly, from working hours to the time of the next subway.

Everything has to be fast, the modern world worships speed, works for speed, spends money for speed and lives for speed. Time is the name of the transition between birth and death. As a result, the “time” between birth and death is already planned in the modern world. While we plan when to sleep, when to work, when to move, we forgo the instances where we need to stop; when to feel, when to listen. With On Transit, Melody Hesaraky digs into those moments, allowing us to look at the movement of human beings in stillness.

Hesaraky, who can be called a citizen of the world, reflects the perspectives of movement, body and art form all over the world in her works. Eastern lines and western forms come together to present the middle ground of opposites such as life and death, black and white, East and West, modern and postmodern. The exhibition resembles finding oneself in limbo, feeling in transition between two worlds, between the rhythm of daily life and the fluidity of the human body. It allows us to perceive time and space in stillness while looking at the works.

This process brings us closer to our bodies, the vessels of our journey.

Though “In Transit”, we follow the lines and explore purgatory and transition between binary opposites. Each captured moment pushes the boundaries of the human journey, creation and times. In a world bossed with speed, Hesaraky’s art work keeps you still.

- From the Exhibition’s Catalogue