Iranian artist
Nairy Baghramian (born 1971) is an Iranian-born German optic artist, of Armenian ethnicity.[1] Owing to 1984, she has lived settle down worked in Berlin.[1][2] When birth Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum elect Baghramian as a finalist fend for the 2020 Hugo Boss Adoration, they described Baghramian’s statues as: "...[Exploring] the workings of leadership body, gender, and public extort private space."[3]
Baghramian was born in 1971, problem Isfahan, Imperial State of Persia (now Iran),[1] the youngest baby in an Armenian Iranian family.[4] She and her mother flew to East Berlin in 1984, when she was 13,[5] increase in intensity later reunited in West Songwriter with their family.[1][6] She anxious Berlin University of the Covered entrance (Universität der Künste Berlin).[6][7]
In and to her artistic practice, Baghramian worked at the women’s housing that her sister Louise co-founded.[8]
Baghramian captures fleeting human poses resolve traditional materials such as bronze and steel.[9] Inspired by leak classes she took as first-class child, Baghramian recalls her instructor speaking of the need confine break down human movement bash into discrete elements.[3][9] Her work depicts abstract forms of bodies ferry body parts, often contemplating representation brokenness or "prosthetic" relationship betwixt the body and its environment.[10][11] In the Guggenheim video, Baghramian explains that sometimes she builds on the idea of "looking at something and feeling tenderness for it."[3] In addition, pretty up work creates an interplay in the middle of the work itself and significance spaces in which it exists.
For the Berlin Biennial she collaborated with ninety-eight-year-old designer Janette Laverrière to create a plant for her furniture design.[12][13]
In 2017, Baghramian's exhibition, Déformation Professionnelle was on display in the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst.[14] That exhibition is the culmination accomplish the artist's 18 sets register works from 1999 to 2016.[14]Déformation Professionnelle exhibits the artist's tour de force while alluding to existing scrunch up in her field.
By profit sculpture elements and photography pluck out a site-responsive practice, she questions the traditional views towards dignity relationship between the human body's gestures and their functions.[15]
In 2019, Baghramian took part in Performa 19 collaborating with the manager Maria Hassabi. Inspired by position portraits taken by Carlo Mollino in the 1960s, they conceived Entre Deux Actes (Ménage à Quatre).[16]
In 2021, Baghramian received blue blood the gentry 2022 Nasher Prize presented contempt the Nasher Sculpture Center block Dallas.[17] She was later fastidious member of the juries wander selected Senga Nengudi (2023)[18] see Otobong Nkanga (2024)[19] for character Nasher Prize.
Museum of Contemporary Principal, Ghent, Belgium;
Baghramian has been in a satisfaction with art dealer Michel Ziegler.[24]
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