Summary: Architecture, Art and Psychoanalysis. A four part podcast recorded by Paul Mitchell at the Anna Freud Centre on Saturday 14th July 2012. This conference brought together practitioners and theorists from different fields to think about the emotional experience of architecture and architectural spaces. In home, theatre, church, museum, or transformations of space in contemporary art, architecture and mental space interact in ways that indicate the role of unconscious process in the built environment. Part 3: In Space Between: Photography, Memory and Construction Yamini Nayar ABSTRACT Yamini Nayar's photographs stem from a deep interest in architectural space, lived experience and memory. Her large scale images are made by documenting sculptural installations built in her studio on tabletops from raw and found building materials and collected image fragments. Drawing on historical photos and personal narrative, her images explore the tensions between sculpture and photography, as the image develops over time and accumulates its own narrative logic, physicality and traces of construction and erasure. Once recorded, the sculpture is disassembled and discarded. Only the photograph remains, as a document, object and entry point into a moment held together for the lens. Yamini Nayar is an internationally recognised artist living in New York. She is currently a Workspace Artist-in-Residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a Visiting Artist Scholar at New York University's Steinhardt School of Art. Prior to these appointments she was resident in 2010 at the Center for Photography at Woodstock and was the Lightborne artist-in-residence at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She has participated in exhibitions and publications internationally, including the Saatchi Museum in London, Indian Art Summit, Art Basel in Switzerland, Sharjah Biennial and Unfixed: Postcolonial Perspectives in Photography and Contemporary Art, Amsterdam. She has had recent solo exhibitions with Thomas Erben, NY and Amrita Jhaveri, Mumbai. Reviews include Artforum, Art in America, ArtPapers, Art India, Vogue India and the New Yorker. Nayar's upcoming exhibitions include the DeCordova Sculpture Museum, Massachusetts and the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia. Collections include the Saatchi Museum, US Arts in Embassies, Cincinnati Art Museum, Queens Museum, Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane and the Hiscox Collection. Nayar received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. www.yamininayar.com
