Reza Monahan is an Iranian American artist who works across cinema, language, installation, photomontage, drawing, and sound. His practice is grounded in attention, in the body's capacity to register what it would otherwise miss. He takes what already exists, a worn facade, the dead air of an empty room, a held cinematic frame, and works it until a building seems to exhale or a silence turns audible. His real subject isn't what's disappearing but the attention we bring to it. The work refuses to resolve: it loops, it fractures, it leaves its endings open. He calls this Meta-Kinesthetics: an entanglement of image, language, and felt experience, rooted in the haptic, where meaning isn't transmitted through narrative but made in the body of the viewer, through perception and sensation.

 Selected Projects