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Roksana Pirouzmand — Things that can happen in a room
Roksana Pirouzmand

Things that can happen in a room

2020

Things that can happen in a room presents a quiet but charged object, a ceramic tile measuring just over 19 centimeters square that carries the conceptual weight of Roksana Pirouzmand's sustained inquiry into bodies, materials, and the invisible transactions that occur between them. Pirouzmand, an Iranian multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, works across sculpture, installation, video, and performance, and her practice consistently positions the physical object as a site of communication rather than mere representation. Trained at the California Institute of the Arts and holding an MFA from UCLA, she brings a rigorous theoretical framework to forms that remain sensory and approachable. In this work, the intimacy of the ceramic medium, its tactile surface, its modest scale, its handmade specificity, becomes the very subject under examination. The title invites an open-ended reading, suggesting latency, potential, and the psychic charge that accumulates within enclosed domestic or architectural space. A room implies a body present or recently absent, actions completed or anticipated, thresholds between private experience and shared environment. Pirouzmand's interest in the body as both receiver and activator gives the piece a dual nature: it can be held and contemplated as a sculptural object, yet it also performs, quietly, on the viewer's imagination. The ceramic format carries associations with utility and the handcrafted, grounding what could otherwise remain purely conceptual in something warm and materially grounded. Signed by the artist and offered at a modest scale ideal for a considered collection, this work represents Pirouzmand at a moment when her multidisciplinary practice was deepening its focus on material as language. It ships from Los Angeles and presents collectors with an accessible entry point into the work of an artist whose cross-disciplinary profile continues to grow in significance.

Medium
Ceramic
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Roksana Pirouzmand, Things that can happen in a room, 2020

Things that can happen in a room presents a quiet but charged object, a ceramic tile measuring just over 19 centimeters square that carries the conceptual weight of Roksana Pirouzmand's sustained inquiry into bodies, materials, and the invisible transactions that occur between them. Pirouzmand, an Iranian multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, works across sculpture, installation, video, and performance, and her practice consistently positions the physical object as a site of communication rather than mere representation. Trained at the California Institute of the Arts and holding an MFA from UCLA, she brings a rigorous theoretical framework to forms that remain sensory and approachable. In this work, the intimacy of the ceramic medium, its tactile surface, its modest scale, its handmade specificity, becomes the very subject under examination. The title invites an open-ended reading, suggesting latency, potential, and the psychic charge that accumulates within enclosed domestic or architectural space. A room implies a body present or recently absent, actions completed or anticipated, thresholds between private experience and shared environment. Pirouzmand's interest in the body as both receiver and activator gives the piece a dual nature: it can be held and contemplated as a sculptural object, yet it also performs, quietly, on the viewer's imagination. The ceramic format carries associations with utility and the handcrafted, grounding what could otherwise remain purely conceptual in something warm and materially grounded. Signed by the artist and offered at a modest scale ideal for a considered collection, this work represents Pirouzmand at a moment when her multidisciplinary practice was deepening its focus on material as language. It ships from Los Angeles and presents collectors with an accessible entry point into the work of an artist whose cross-disciplinary profile continues to grow in significance.

Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
overall: 19.1 x 19.1 cm
Year
2020
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
JOAN Los Angeles Benefit Auction

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