Partin Bastan

After exploring digital sculpture and image-making, he returned to hand-built sculpture, finding a more direct means of artistic expression through materials such as iron and stone. His sustained interest in human and animal anatomy has become fundamental to the development of his figurative language. His figures move beyond physical representation through distortion, exaggeration, and transformation of form, addressing psychological and emotional states that cannot be easily seen or articulated. Beginning with imagined forms, he uses material to give physical presence to states such as tension, vulnerability, isolation, and the complexity of inner experience. In his practice, the body is not merely a subject of representation but a means of revealing what remains unseen. His expressionistic figurative sculptures occupy the space between recognizable human form and psychological transformation.