Born 1974
Lives New York
Water Panics in the Sea
2008
Animation
Courtesy the artist and The Third Line
Laleh Khorramian uses the unlikely material of orange peel to populate her animations. Despite the throwaway nature of her medium, organic matter is an apt metaphor for the twists and turns of the romantic narrative of her video work I Without End … Meanwhile (2008): the unfurling motion of citrus skins fashioned to represent two star-crossed lovers who meet an untimely fate gives a lyrical tempo that befits her stories surrounding matters of the heart. A similar open-minded approach to materials is found in her collages: The Post-War Dream (2008) is a bubbling mélange of orange and black oil, ink, crayon and nail polish. Rather than imbuing mundane matter with a sense of the fantastic, Khorramian unearths the other-worldly latent within the everyday. (BB)
