"To be transparent is the most fragile state of mind, and it needs to be supported, it needs to be embraced." — Nairy Baghramian

Julie Mehretu​, TRANSpaintings (hand), 2023, Courtesy of the artist and White Cube. Installation view, “Julie Mehretu. Ensemble”, 2024, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia. Ph. Marco Cappelletti © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection
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Sat, 06/01/2024 - 12:16

"To be transparent is the most fragile state of mind, and it needs to be supported, it needs to be embraced." — Nairy Baghramian

It’s a very collaborative work, it looks like a series, but each has its own individual voice. Julie Mehretu asked me if I could frame them, if I could give them a standing. So I came up with the idea of sculptural embracing. […] We all float somehow in Venice, on the sea and in the rooms.

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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 17:12

"I have always worked with music and I think this show is really in a way like a score. It’s something that informed my aesthetics a lot, and my way of thinking." — Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, First Seal (R 6:1), 2020 Pinault Collection © Julie Mehretu Courtesy of the artist and BORCH Editions
Julie Mehretu, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, First Seal (R 6:1), 2020 Pinault Collection © Julie Mehretu Courtesy of the artist and BORCH Editions

When you are thinking about jazz and you are thinking about history, it’s never just inventing by itself, it’s about quoting. […] Artists have always been in dialogue. They are dealing and negotiating not just their contemporary time, but we are negotiating current ideas about aesthetics critically.