Dwindler_Rear tilt_down 1

Nairy Baghramian Iranian

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Often evoking bodily gestures, junctures, or fragments, Baghramian's abstract sculptures and installations engage with architecture, contextualizing and shaping space. In addition to site specificity, the innovative and subversive deployment of heterogeneous materials are hallmarks of Baghramian's work. Dwindler_Rear tilt_down 1 belongs to a series of sculptures that feature fragmented floor to ceiling glass pipes, held together by zinc bands and a chemical sealant. These forms invoke utilitarian ducts, but their openness, transparency, and implicitly fragile glass panels bound with manually applied putty-like adhesive demonstrate that they are the result of aesthetic play. Patinated with smoky residues suggestive of the ethereal substances that course through conventional pipes, these stacked conduits encircle voids and assume an ethereal appearance themselves.

Dwindler_Rear tilt_down 1, Nairy Baghramian (Iranian, born Isfahan 1971), Glass, zinc coated metal, colored epoxy resin

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Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery. Photography by Oliver Otenschlaeger.

Dwindler_Rear tilt_down 1, Nairy Baghramian (Iranian, born Isfahan 1971), Glass, zinc coated metal, colored epoxy resin
Dwindler_Rear tilt_down 1, Nairy Baghramian (Iranian, born Isfahan 1971), Glass, zinc coated metal, colored epoxy resin

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