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Image Credit - Jhaveri Contemporary
Yamini Nayar combines photography, sculpture, and architecture to produce intricate visual riddles that ultimately take the shape of photographic records. Her pieces begin with instinctively constructed handcrafted sculptures and wall-based assemblages, which are inextricably linked to her lifelong fascination with architecture and the psychological aspects of space. The sculptures begin to take shape once they are in the camera's field of view. The artist considers time, event, and the body as elements to control and distort the material with the immaterial, putting process and the "holding" qualities of the built environment in the foreground.
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Image Credit - Jhaveri Contemporary
Her pictures transport us to unusual interiors. What appear to be ceilings may actually be floors, and vice versa. Gaining ground is challenging, and there is a pervasive notion of ongoing and continuous damage. The interior in the image captioned "Akhet"—the ancient Egyptian word for the flood season—appears to have a river coursing through it, ripping off wallpaper as it goes and pooling up as it surges for an outlet.
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Image Credit - Jhaveri Contemporary
Yamini Nayar earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999 and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2005. Her work has been featured in several international exhibitions, most recently at the Le Recontres De La Photographie, Arles (2022), Art Institute of Chicago (2022), deCordova Museum, Massachusetts (2020), Logan Gallery at the University of Chicago (2016), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2015), Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida (2015), Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2015), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane (2012), and Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates (2011).