“If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man always seeks happiness in the realm of fantasy, and in this realm, he sees
himself the way he desires to be. It is a veil over his eyes and the opium that
helps him face the painful truth. With this delusion, he gets lost in a sublime
image of himself imbued with a false spirituality, wandering with lost ideals and
forgotten values, seeking to satisfy his lost desires and making up for every
failure he has experienced in the real world. He keeps wandering in this perfect
fantasy, and the continuation of the feeling of satisfaction makes this graveyard
of desires to be even closer to his false reflection. However, eventually, he finds
that he is destined to end up in the same dead-end he has escaped from, but
now in a new context. The salvation that man seeks is like a stone thrown into
the bottom of an endless well that is supposed to bring us the sound of water.
- Payam Qelichy 

 Qelichy's works are under the rule of darkness. But deep into this
darkness, you can see a ray of light that is valued and can reveal
thousands of complex relations and events—the darkness that is
nothing but contains everything; A setting for reality and fantasy to be
intertwined. We can see a wide range of influences from art history in
Qelichy's work; From the multiplicity of Bosch's infernal narratives to the
theatrical mannerism of Caravaggio's figures to Lynch's dreamlike
reality. Relationships between humans and other beings are in a state
between dream and reality. But his works are a personal reaction to what
is happening in the world and society. Every element is an imaginative
interpretation of the real world. In fact, his work reflects life in the form of
a black and white fantasy that opens a window from the outside to the
inside for his viewer. His work is reminiscent of the illusion that
metaphysical painters such as Giorgio de Chirico were looking for in the
physical relations of the real world; Sharp contrasts of light and shade
that create a vague and threatening aura. Qelichy gives a black and white
account of his observations about the current human condition.
- Behrang Samadzadegan