Over the past two decades, Nairy Baghramian has created sculptures, photographic works, and drawings that explore relationships between architecture, everyday objects, and the human body. Her works—on view in the exhibition Nairy Baghramian: Déformation Professionnelle and on the Walker’s Wurtele Upper Garden—mark boundaries, transitions, and gaps in the museum, prompting us to consider form and meaning in the context of interior and exterior spaces. Drawing on references from dance and theater to design and fashion, her work questions and challenges the definition of sculpture. In this new trailer, view the exhibition and her new Walker-commissioned sculptural trio, Privileged Points (2017), on the Walker hillside.
Walking the Walker: On Nairy Baghramian: Déformation Professionelle
As a Walker gallery attendant, writer and musician Will Fraser has spent more time than just about anyone else with the artworks in Nairy Baghramian: Déformation Professionnelle. As the exhibition draws to a close, we invited him to share insights based on hundreds of hours spent in the exhibition over its five-month run.
Surveying the Survey: Vincenzo de Bellis on Working with Nairy Baghramian
"Baghramian is the kind of artist that you can only trust and support. She is fully confident in her ideas, and the reality is that she is, for the most part, right." Vincenzo de Bellis writes on working with Nairy Baghramian on her exhibition, Déformation Professionelle, which engages with the format of the retrospective in a novel way, using the past two decades of her oeuvre as a site to be continually mined for exploration and idea generation.
