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that extend the impact and function of the human form.
Nashat’s exhibition, Force Life, consists of three sculptures
and a video set within an immersive light environment
SHAHRYAR NASHAT: designed by the artist. Each of these works corresponds to

FORCE LIFE an idea in a tripartite system: the video, Blood; the sculpture,
Barre; and two Brains. Each of these concepts, in turn,
The Museum of Modern Art relates to the structure through which art is experienced.
For Nashat, looking at an artwork is a physical experience,
felt through the body; a visual experience, seen through the
eyes; and an intellectual experience, thought through the
For the first commission in the Marie-Josée and Henry brain. Changing throughout the course of the exhibition,
Kravis Studio on February 1, 2020, MoMA presents two the lighting design functions in tandem with the daylight
separate solo exhibitions that will occupy the same space: filtering through the windows in the Kravis Studio. The
choreographer Adam Linder’s performance Shelf Life lighting connects the dispersed objects of Nashat’s central
and artist Shahryar Nashat’s installation Force Life. The nervous system into a single body. Seen, felt, and thought
exhibitions will alternate every hour throughout the day so of together, the elements of Nashat’s installation enable the
that only one is on view at a given time. The exhibitions run birth of a new lifeform.
through March 8, 2020.

Shahryar Nashat: Force Life is commissioned by The
Los Angeles–based artist Shahryar Nashat (b. 1975, Geneva) Museum of Modern Art, New York, and organized at MoMA
works across sculpture, video, sound, and light. His work by The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance
encourages audiences to reflect on the impact of new Stuart Comer, and Ana Janevski, Curator, with Giampaolo
technologies on the human body. Nashat is interested in Bianconi, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and
how technological innovations often serve as prostheses Performance Art.

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© 2019 Shahryar Nashat, Photo: Will Davidson

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