MoMA Acquires three works by Sheree Hovsepian
Uffner & Liu is delighted to announce that three Sheree Hovsepian assemblages have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Sheree Hovsepian’s multidisciplinary practice investigates the relationship between the body and the spaces it inhabits. Trained as a photographer at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Iranian-born artist moved to Toledo, Ohio as a child—an experience that continues to inform her explorations of identity, borders, and belonging. In her assemblage series, which was shown in the 2022 Venice Biennale, Hovsepian combines photographic imagery (often of her sister) with wood, ceramic, string, nylon, and other tactile materials, creating layered compositions that record the body as an archive of coexisting physical and psychological states. Excerpts of the figure are punctuated by objects that echo human form, offering glimpses of the body cloaked in ordered abstraction. Hovsepian's careful interplay between the indexical and the unknown reflects a fascination with dichotomy—presence and absence, exposure and concealment. Encased within the shadowboxes are moments that explore the threshold where bodies and environments blur; where identity slips between subject and object.
