Shirazeh Houshiary’s optical illusions transfix New York
Shirazeh Houshiary’s optical illusions transfix New York
Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary puts perceptions of time, space, and materiality through their paces in ‘A Thousand Folds’ at Lehmann Maupin New York
Shirazeh Houshiary,
Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London
Shirazeh Houshiary’s ‘A Thousand Folds’ is a game of laws: the laws of nature and the laws of physics that underpin works that are laws unto themselves. It’s all contradiction and paradox: transparency and opacity, sound and silence, physicality and intangibility.
As the show’s title suggests, the London-based Iranian artist’s latest work explores the many folds of the artist’s practice and the thousand dimensions it occupies.
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