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Shahryar Nashat — Everything That Makes That Suisse Faggot Fun
Shahryar Nashat

Everything That Makes That Suisse Faggot Fun

2019

Everything That Makes That Suisse Faggot Fun positions its viewer in a state of productive unease, layering printed media beneath acrylic glass and suspending it in acrylic gel to create an object that is simultaneously archival and alive. Nashat, who works across sculpture, video, and lens-based practices, consistently interrogates the body as a site of desire, labor, and institutional formation, and this compact work distills those preoccupations into a format that feels intimate and confrontational in equal measure. The title's reclamation of a slur alongside the word "Suisse" collapses geography and identity into a single charged phrase, inviting the collector to sit with the tension between national belonging and its exclusions. The material choices are far from incidental. Acrylic gel suspends the printed substrate in a condition that is neither purely photographic nor purely sculptural, giving the surface a viscous, almost bodily quality that rewards close looking. The work's relatively modest scale, just over thirty by forty-five centimeters, concentrates that charge rather than dispersing it, demanding proximity and a willingness to engage on its own terms. Nashat consistently resists the idea that beauty and critique are separate registers, and this piece exemplifies that refusal, offering an object of real visual sophistication that does not soften its conceptual edges. Signed by the artist and presented without a frame, the work retains an openness to installation decisions that suits a collector willing to think carefully about context and display. Its appearance at the Swiss Institute underscores Nashat's continued engagement with European institutional spaces, even as his practice maintains a critical distance from the conventions such spaces tend to enforce.

Medium
Acrylic glass, printed media, acrylic gel
Overall
Signed
Yes
Location
Swiss Institute, New York, NY

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Shahryar Nashat, Everything That Makes That Suisse Faggot Fun, 2019

Everything That Makes That Suisse Faggot Fun positions its viewer in a state of productive unease, layering printed media beneath acrylic glass and suspending it in acrylic gel to create an object that is simultaneously archival and alive. Nashat, who works across sculpture, video, and lens-based practices, consistently interrogates the body as a site of desire, labor, and institutional formation, and this compact work distills those preoccupations into a format that feels intimate and confrontational in equal measure. The title's reclamation of a slur alongside the word "Suisse" collapses geography and identity into a single charged phrase, inviting the collector to sit with the tension between national belonging and its exclusions. The material choices are far from incidental. Acrylic gel suspends the printed substrate in a condition that is neither purely photographic nor purely sculptural, giving the surface a viscous, almost bodily quality that rewards close looking. The work's relatively modest scale, just over thirty by forty-five centimeters, concentrates that charge rather than dispersing it, demanding proximity and a willingness to engage on its own terms. Nashat consistently resists the idea that beauty and critique are separate registers, and this piece exemplifies that refusal, offering an object of real visual sophistication that does not soften its conceptual edges. Signed by the artist and presented without a frame, the work retains an openness to installation decisions that suits a collector willing to think carefully about context and display. Its appearance at the Swiss Institute underscores Nashat's continued engagement with European institutional spaces, even as his practice maintains a critical distance from the conventions such spaces tend to enforce.

Medium
Acrylic glass, printed media, acrylic gel
Dimensions
overall: 30.8 x 45.4 cm
Year
2019
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Swiss Institute, Manhattan, United States

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