what are the weird statues

[picklas]

sometimes there's just random statues in the gungeoun that have some random sentence when you walk up to them. for example, there's one in the first room of the first chamber.

[󠀡⁧⁧󠀡]

those are shrines. they do stuff like give buffs, items, chests etc

[The Cynical One]

Yup I agree, check out "Shrines" on the EtG wiki (Just search Enter the Gungeon wiki). The one on the first floor only activates after beating the past of 1 of the characters. It gives 9 curse (which does some cool and terrible things) and that's about it.