Artist Walkthrough of Yassi Mazandi: Born-Porcelain

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Born-Porcelain, Yassi Mazandi’s first solo exhibition with Make Room, follows a generative process that begins with ceramics but multiplies and transfigures through a series of experimental tests that push the limits of certain formal structures across different materials and media.The paintings on view in Born-Porcelain are generated from the structure of Mazandi’s flower sculptures, which are scanned using a CT machine and then manipulated to produce digital videos from which a single, symmetrical frame is taken as the basis for painting. The selection of works on paper offers another view into Mazandi’s practice, featuring examples of her imaginary Germs on Sheets series, as well as experiments with technique and materials. Taking an artistic approach to the methods of scientific inquiry, Mazandi’s work reveals a world where everything is connected through an underlying system of forms whose existence we can only assume based on the undeniable correspondence between the appearance of objects.