Join the Met Museum for series of films selected by Nairy Baghramian, whose work Scratching the Back is currently on view as this year’s Facade Commission. Engage with films connected with New York City that shaped and influenced Baghramian’s experience as a young artist and her perspectives on art, culture, and society. 

Films include:

Rat Life and Diet in North America, Joyce Wieland, 1968
New York Eye and Ear Control, Michael Snow, 1964
Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith, 1963

Please note that Flaming Creatures contains explicit sexual content.

Born in Iran in 1971, Nairy Baghramian fled to Berlin, Germany in 1984, where she continues to live and work. Baghramian creates abstract sculptures that explore the dynamics of the body, gender, and dichotomies of private and public space. Her site-responsive sculptures and installations engage with architecture and often evoke bodily gestures, junctures, or fragments. Along with site responsivity, other hallmarks of Baghramian’s work are polychromy and the innovative and subversive use of different types of material.

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