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Navid Nuur, untitled, 1988-2012

Navid Nuur lives in The Hague. Most of his works are interventions done in humble materials or unspectacular locations. For example, he inserted a magnet into a piece of rock and sprinkled metal dust onto its crown where it accumulates in crystalline formations. In every installation the sculpture changes its shape and eventually begins to rust. Nuur often concerns himself with intermediate spaces in the real world. In a recent interview, the artist noted: “My works are not sculptures; they are always in-between mediums. They are like modules that I can assemble.” Paying homage to the in-between, his works oscillate between concept and realization, design and chance, beauty and failure. Nuur’s dialogic approach playfully disupts traditional notions and hierarchies.