My photographs of imagined spaces are built on tabletops from found and raw materials. They are documented with a large-format camera and afterward, are disassembled and discarded.

Architecture, from religious to the mundane, as well as found imagery culled from from media archives are starting points for my installations in which space becomes a repository for multiple and hyphenated narratives. The work is process oriented - wherein the final image emerges over time and through a process of building and reworking the structure and contents of a given scene. My work aims to articulate a location that is found somewhere between grand narratives and peripheral perspectives, while at the same time questioning its very stability. The final image is an entry point into an assembled world, in transition and momentarily held together for the lens, as well as a document of a destroyed object.

Yamini Nayar is a New York-based visual artist originally from Detroit, MI. She received
her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts
in New York, and is a past recipient of the Aaron Siskind Fellowship. Recent exhibitions
include The Empire Strikes Back, Saatchi Museum; Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris; Marella
Gallery, Beijing; and Arrested Views with Sheela Gowda at Thomas Erben Gallery. Her work
has been critically appraised in the New Yorker, The New York Times, Art India and Art
AsiaPacific Magazine. She is listed by Vogue India as one of 'India’s Top Ten Artists to
Watch' and has recently been included as one of six photographers chosen by Vince Aletti
in the Philips de Pury's 'NOW, Art of the 21st Century' publication.


Nayar's work is represented by Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, www.thomaserben.com.