Part of an ongoing series, the work brings together distinct strands of Baghramian’s practice: ‘Side Leaps,’ a body of sketches, drawings, and maquettes produced throughout her career that function as conceptual, unresolved investigations rather than preparatory works, and ‘Spatial Compositions,’ the sculptural arrangement of these elements on unpainted metal structures. Combining disparate forms into deliberately ambiguous configurations, the series explores ideas of displacement, instability, and the shifting identities of objects.

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Nairy Baghramian

Side Leaps_Spatial Compositions

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  • Metal, foam, drawing on paper, acrylic, concrete
  • 187 x 155 x 90 cm / 73 5/8 x 61 x 35 3/8 in
© Nairy BaghramianPhoto: Jon Etter

Gallery Senior Director and Partner, Zoe Sperling, discusses Nairy Baghramian’s ‘Side Leaps_Spatial Compositions’

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About the Artist

Nairy Baghramian’s work traverses the realms of sculpture, installation, photography and drawing with fearless experimentation, historical acuity and conceptual rigor. Particularly in her prime medium of sculpture, the artist employs an extensive repertoire of techniques, materials and forms to address the spatial, architectural, social, political and contextual conditions of contemporary art.

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Art Basel 2026

Nairy Baghramian’s ‘Side Leaps_Spatial Compositions’ will be on view in our presentation at Art Basel alongside voices from past and present that have defined art history. With an emphasis on exceptional modern and contemporary works, our presentation traverses a century of artistic invention, from Cubism to some of the most urgent artistic voices of today.