
Untitled
2020
A spectral X-ray of the artist's own skeleton anchors this untitled 2020 work by Shahryar Nashat, its ghostly anatomical imagery sliced through by a psychedelic, linear glitch that fractures any sense of bodily coherence. Rendered via UV print on Hydrocal and gesso, then mounted on powder coated steel with a rubber backing, the piece occupies a precise threshold between clinical document and hallucinatory object. The material choices are deliberate and layered: Hydrocal, a casting compound associated with medical and industrial fabrication, carries connotations of reproduction and preservation, while the UV printing process lends the surface an uncanny luminosity that resists easy categorization as either photograph or sculpture. Nashat's practice orbits the lived realities of mortal progression, the body as both subject and index of time, and the strange perceptual gaps that open between what is seen and what is felt. His work consistently proposes modes of looking that feel slightly ahead of the present moment, filtering human experience through a lens that is not quite available yet. This piece exemplifies that impulse, presenting the interior architecture of a body in a state of beautiful interference, neither intact nor destroyed, but suspended in a condition of productive ambiguity. Nashat has exhibited extensively at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Kunsthalle Basel, and the Walker Art Center, and his reputation as one of the more rigorously conceptual sculptors working today makes this 2020 work a significant opportunity for collectors drawn to art that engages the body, technology, and the uncanny with equal intellectual force.
- Medium
- UV print on Hydrocal, gesso, rubber and powder coated steel
- Overall
More by Shahryar Nashat



Start the Discussion
Request access to join the discussion