Nairy Baghramian

Marian Goodman Gallery in London is delighted to be mounting their first exhibition with the Iranian artist, opening on 9 June and running through to 29 July.

‘Scruff of the Neck’ is conceived around the mouth with a row of sculptural 'teeth' forming the lower jaw in the ground floor gallery and the upper jaw on the first floor.

Key to Baghramian’s work is how theoretical concepts, drawn from art historical debates around Minimalism, literature and design history, are translated into specific decisions about materiality, manufacture and display. Best known for her sculptural installations, Baghramian questions context, institutional framing and the production and reception of contemporary art. For the artist, looking at a sculpture is a quintessentially phenomenological experience, conditioned by the wider spatial context.

Nairy Baghramian was born in Iran in 1971 and currently lives and works in Berlin. Her recent exhibitions include Illuminations at the 54th Venice Biennale; a two person show with Phyllida Barlow at Serpentine Gallery in London, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Aachen; Entr'acte, at Sculpture Project Munster 07 and the Kunsthalle Basel.