Artist:
Nairy Baghramian (born 1971 in Isfahan, Iran; lives and works in Berlin, Germany).

Description:
“Faced with Nairy Baghramian’s Entre deux actes II (Loge des Comédiennes) (Between two acts II, Actresses’ dressing room, 2009), one was tempted to sit down in this reproduction of a dressing room with furniture designed by Janette Laverrière. The black podium on which the interior was staged created a border, though there was no rope cordon or invigilator to prevent people from entering. The installation was combined with a wall display of erotic photographs of women taken by Carlo Mollino, and thus raised the issue of genuine privacy versus a staged female private sphere, as well as highlighting the artistic value of the Bauhaus-inspired design.”
—Sarah Alberti, review of “Settings,” Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Frieze, November 2, 2012.

“In a recent project, Entre deux actes: Loge de comedienne, 2009, the artist worked in collaboration with Swiss designer Janette Laverrière.  Together, they transformed Laverrière’s 1947 architectural display of the same name into an installation within the institutional setting of Kunsthalle Baden Baden, producing a sculptural mise-en-scène that provocatively prised open issues of domesticity, utility, and gender. The installation excavated the latent politics in Laverrière’s previous work and activated a dense and witty dialogue between the pair’s respective practices.”
—”Nairy Baghramian,” MAP Magazine 21.