15/11/2025
✨Weekend Highlight: Final days✨Afsaneh Nagy — From Different Angle
In „From Different Angle“, Afsaneh Nagy extends the limits of photographic practice, transforming fleeting moments into layered,
tactile installations. Beginning with the captured image, she moves beyond traditional representation: photographs are
transferred onto unframed canvas and subsequently activated with paint, color, and texture. In this process, the canvas becomes a responsive material: shifting, absorbing, and interacting with the image, its surface animated by rhythm and movement, allowing the works to exceed the stillness of photography. Through the integration of movement, long exposure, and layered intervention, Nagy brings forward a nuanced interplay of light, gesture, and the figurative.
Some of the pieces initially withhold their subjects, prompting viewers to reconsider what is not immediately visible. At close
range, subtle textures and intimate marks emerge; at a distance, broader rhythms and forms take precedence. The works unfold
within a careful tension between the act of seeing and the experience of uncovering.
Nagy’s sensibility has been shaped by a life lived across cultures and identities, informed from an early age by an attentiveness to the quiet, resilient forces of her world. Her art practice recognises that truth resides not in singular positions but in the interplay of contrasts.
With „From Different Angle“, Nagy returns to the presence of women who sustain the world, who rebuild and endure, and whose
strength manifests in diverse and powerful ways. In this series, she deepens her exploration of the intersections between
photography, materiality, movement, and installation. The resulting works — raw, vibrant, and continually in flux — inhabit the
fluid space where photography, painting, and installation converge. The series embodies the artists’s guiding vision: beauty defined not by flawlessness, but by presence, by what lies beneath the surface and what reveals itself when we truly look.
Anna Maurrasse
📍Last chance to visit Afsaneh Nagy in the heart of Zurich Old Town!
Saturday Nov 16: 10 am - 8 pm
Sunday Nov 17: 12:00 pm - 7 pm
Pfalzgasse 3, 8001 Zürich
