With powerfully alive new works at the Met and MoMA, the Iranian-born artist Nairy Baghramian embraces the canon, the better to take it apart.
Nairy Baghramian in her Berlin studio. βA vertical swimming pool doesnβt exist, but I would like to swim in it,β she said. βThereβs no such thing as a horizontal staircase β but I would like to imagine it.β