Yamini Nayar
Workspace: Current Session
New York-based artist Yamini Nayar's photographs of imagined architectures combine elements of architectural history, memory and personal narrative. With a deep interest in alternate histories and experiences, Nayar's photographs of tabletop sculptural installations are built from found and raw materials and physically interpret spaces sourced from historical archives and old architectural magazines. Constructed around a fixed perspective, once the image is recorded, the physical installation is discarded. Only the photograph remains, as a document, an object and entry point into a moment held together solely for the lens. Nayar was a resident at the Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Art Academy of Cincinnati as the Lightborne artist-in-residence. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions with Thomas Erben, NY and Amrita Jhaveri, Mumbai, and group exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery London, Queens Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Basel Switzerland, Art in Embassies and Indian Art Summit. Publications include the Sharjah Biennial 2011, and Unfixed: Postcolonial Perspectives in Photography and Contemporary Art, Amsterdam. Reviews include Artforum, Art in America, ArtPapers, Art India, Vogue India and The New Yorker. Nayar's upcoming exhibitions include the DeCordova Sculpture Museum and the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia. Nayar received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Cascading Attica, 2011
40 x 50 inches
Digital chromogenic print
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Ethos, 2012
40 x 50 inches
Digital chromogenic print
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Harpoon, 2012
30 x 46 inches
Digital chromogenic print
