Afruz Amighi

To Those Whom No One Owns

and the ASIAN ART MUSUEM
present

AFRUZ AMIGHI

To Those Whom No One Owns

In Conversation with Naz Cuguoglu

Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & Programs
Asian Art Museum

Farhang Foundation and the Asian Art Museum are delighted to extend a warm welcome to the esteemed artist Afruz Amighi, as she joins us to delve into her latest commissioned project by the Asian Art Museum, aptly titled: "TO THOSE WHOM NO ONE OWNS."

Joining Afruz in this engaging dialogue will be Naz Cuguoglu, the assistant curator of contemporary art, who will provide insightful perspectives on the significance and nuances of Amighi's work.

 

 

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About Afruz Amighi

Afruz Amighi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1974. She studied Political Science at Barnard College and completed her M.F.A. at New York University.

Amighi’s artistic practice spans large-scale installation, sculpture, drawing, performance, and poetry. Her objects and installations play with light and shadow to explore the poetics of space. Adjacent to architecture and ornament, Amighi’s work adapts a wide range of industrial materials, ranging from steel and concrete to jewelry chain and glass, which are then illuminated to activate the sensation of the sacred that dwells within the ordinary. Inspired by the cathedral, the mosque, the tomb, and the shrine, the artist has likened her structures to abodes. Their liminal spaces retrieve diverse histories and outwardly incongruent cultures, inviting the viewer to imagine “structures that have a relationship to the past but have not yet been realized.” As one time is folded over another, a path opens to the enchantment so prematurely eclipsed by secular modernity.

Amighi is the inaugural recipient of the Jameel Prize in 2009 and her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and The Morgan Museum and Library, among others.

She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.