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Shirazeh Houshiary

Author: Lisson Gallery London
Category: Catalogue
Publisher: Lisson Gallery London
ISBN: 0 947830 01 4
Year: 1984
Subject: Installation, Sculpture, Lisson Gallery London,
Description: Houshiary speaks of the ways in which in the spiritual life of any person there is often an initial reliance on an icon or similar sanctified object as a mediator, even membrane, through which the initiate seeks to apprehend the sacred beyond. but a moment is reached when it becomes possible to approach the unknown directly, without intermediaries. the evolution in her own work might be described analogously. By relinquishing precursors a more intense, more engaged contemplation of the object is required than heretofore. Whilst undoubtedly more personal, her current idiom is neither hermetic nor obsessively private: each sculpture is a self-sufficient coherent entity.
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