Sunday, March 20, 2016

Nairy Baghramian at Museo Tamayo


Double entendre of objects looking like innuendo, like bodily stones complicating the minimalist mantra that what you see is what you see, because what you see is sometimes sexually confusing, leather seats in car beginning to look like the lap of a heavily tanned, taught, and naked man. The cigar that just not might be, or rocks that just might, a “bodily” different from its post-minimalist reassertion; entendre produces a psychoactive uncertainty in polite company, and Baghramian has spoken at length of the object-turned-subject monster for which the art-world prescribes all talking cures those object orientated fetishists, like yellow socks with sandals, perverse.

See too: "Being Thing” at Centre International d’Arte et du Paysage & Treignac ProjetKatja Novitskova at Kunsthalle LissabonNancy Lupo at 1857Torbjørn Rødland at Kunsthall StavangerMartín Soto Climent at Proyectos Monclova