nameless is Nairy Baghramian's new exhibition at WIELS. It brings together several previously unseen pieces that engage in dialogue with post-industrial architecture.
Baghramian draws inspiration from her observations and encounters with the work of avant-garde artists such as Katarzyna Kobro, Jean Arp, Isamu Noguchi, and Wols, who fled Europe as exiles in the 1930s. Stripped of familiar tools, studios, language, and stable living conditions, these artists continued to create under extreme constraints. Their provisional and precarious creations—often made for basic survival—reflect the impermanence, reduction, and displacement that are at the centre of Baghramian’s artistic practice.
nameless examines the forces that shape the displacement and statelessness of sculptures and objects. Baghramian reflects on the precarious condition of such works, conjuring the need for a condition of existence for them "outside" the rigidity of language, codes, and names—a concern that resonates beyond the geopolitical crises of the present.
nairy baghramian self 01, 2025.
