In June, DOG presented SHELTER 750 – a solo exhibition of work spanning design, objects, and sculpture. The show represented a visual essay drawing on an extended index of generative forms, digital aggregates, and algorithmic bodies modeled from volcanic data, frozen in time, then realized into material configurations by artist Sahra Jajarmikhayat over the course of two years.
Jajarmikhayat’s work is hard to define, a photographer by trade but an artist through experiment —unlike most artists, she comes from a rigorous background in research and physics. At 19 years old, amidst a tense political climate, she left Iran and immigrated to Italy where she started a career in photography, giving her a newfound way to record, index, and make meaning of the world.
Leading up to the show, Landscape Creative Director Ben Bloom sat down with Jajarmikhayat to talk about her life and her work, digging into the inspiration behind SHELTER 750 — an out-of-body experience at the Stromboli Volcano — and her unique process of experimentation through materiality and form.
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