Irina Nakhova: Probably Would

Nailya Alexander Gallery is pleased to present a new installation by Irina Nakhova, Probably Would. This site‐specific photographic environment will be the artist's fourth one‐ person show in New York. Nailya Alexander Gallery is located at 24 W. 57th Street, #501, NYC, 10019. Gallery hours are Tues.‐Sat., 11 a.m.‐6 p.m.

For this exhibition, Nakhova will mesh and layer large photographic images to transform the entire gallery into a giant three‐dimensional cityscape that spans all four walls and the floor. She will convert the gallery space into a visual continuum without beginning or end, a dreamlike landscape that envelops the viewer in both the altered physicality of the actual gallery and the constructed landscape created by the images. Photographs from the four years Nakhova lived on Fulton Street in New York (busy afternoons when Fulton and Nassau were closed to car traffic, a ticker‐tape parade for the Yankees, a winter blizzard, and finally pictures that were taken in September 2001 are seamlessly collaged into a 360‐degree urban landscape of the intersection of Fulton and Nassau streets. When visitors walk into this landscape, the images' perspective gives them a sense of being elevated to the second‐ or third‐ floor level, as if floating in space among confetti or swirling snowflakes. As the forms of nature intrude, the cityscape becomes partially obscured and fragmented by thousands of organic shapes, united in a round dome of overarching architectural space, producing a feeling of spinning into the illusionary vortex of a shifting, crumbling reality.