At MoMA, meanwhile, a new sculpture has gone on extended view in the sculpture garden, titled “S’adossant (Pauline)” or “Reclining (Pauline).” Its three main sections are painted a fleshy pink and suggest a reclining figure.
Among past incarnations, they told me, the building was once a depot where the East German army painted tanks before parades.
Baghramian is a creature of Berlin arguably more than she is German, having lived in the city stateless for years before receiving citizenship.
She spent tedious hours in government offices helping newcomers with paperwork, and worked at the women’s shelter that her sister Louise co-founded.
“It was a flux moment,” she said of the 1990s in Berlin, “when things were changing and unstable in a positive way.”
Persons:
S’adossant, Pauline, ”, “, I’ve, Baghramian, Michel Ziegler, Louise
Organizations:
MoMA, East
Locations:
Berlin, Isfahan, Islamic Republic, Iran, East Berlin, West Berlin