Padlocks Mixed Media Sculpture

This contemporary mixed media sculpture speaks through silence, where interlocked padlocks and golden spikes reflect a world unraveling

Artwork Description

about this mixed media sculpture

Behnaz Mohammadhadi’s Ragnarok is a powerful sculptural statement on control, memory, and forgotten meaning. The body of the piece is constructed from tightly interlocked padlocks, forming a cylindrical structure that evokes weight, secrecy, and restriction. Each lock is both a symbol and a building block, together they create a vessel that holds nothing yet suggests everything that has been secured, silenced, or lost.

Atop the sculpture sits a polished lid, crowned by a half-brain form with sharp brass spikes emerging from its surface. This cerebral fragment, rendered with precision, appears both vulnerable and aggressive. The spikes suggest defense, tension, or a warning, thought hardened into resistance, knowledge shaped by pain.

This iteration of Ragnarok draws from its mythological namesake not to depict an end, but to examine what is left behind. The padlocks speak of accumulated memory, societal control, and emotional constraint. The brain above reflects a fractured consciousness, still alert but surrounded by danger.

The contrast between industrial material and symbolic form creates a charged tension. The sculpture feels like a relic of a collapsed belief system, a monument to things once valued but now locked away. It is a vessel that no longer holds, a body bound by its own history.

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about the artist

Behnaz Mohammadhadi, born in September 1984 (Shahrivar 1363) in Tehran, is a visual artist and sculptor. She began her artistic journey with painting at a young age but soon gravitated toward sculpture, a medium she found to be more fluid and expansive.

Over the past two decades, she has participated in more than 50 solo and group exhibitions in Iran and abroad. Her work explores inner reflections and socio-cultural themes through distinct and evolving artistic phases. 

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Customization

This series can be made in various sizes, colors, patinas, and finishes. For custom orders, please contact us directly.

care

Dust your sculpture often using a soft, dry cloth of soft brush. Avoid the use of water, chemical and abrasive cleaners.

copyright

This mixed media sculpture is one of a kind original therefore, all copyrights and reproduction rights are reserved by the artist.