Siavash Naderi
Siavash Naderi

My practice begins with the implicit presumptions that render everyday objects legible - continuity, stability, spatiality, and other conditions of perceptual coherence. These presumptions are bent, subverted, and intensified until their perceptual grip manifests, opening questions of whether dimensionality is given or produced, what forms of stability measurement itself presupposes, and whether space precedes objects or emerges through them.

The investigation places ontological formalism and phenomenological inquiry into sustained tension, treating their respective assumptions not as axioms but as interventions brought to bear on the same objects. Sculpture thus becomes the site where idealization meets physical resistance, and perception is unsettled by the very systems that organize it.

Process here is a continued dialect rather than a synthesis. Moving from ordinary observation through metaphysical inquiry, computational operation, and material production, the work culminates in objects that challenge their own coherence, articulate political critique in mathematical form, and establish poetry not as metaphor or ornament, but as residue.

Siavash lives and works between Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the US. He holds A.B. degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy from Brown University.

Garden
Functor
Functor
2024
Catenary Morphism
Catenary Morphism
2024
Bībī
Bībī
2024
DOF
DOF
2025
Intervals
Intervals
2024
Etemenaki
Etemenaki
2023
Gardens
Gardens
2024
Daffodils

The Problem of Dimension

Dimensionality is not a property but a problem masquerading as a solution. Ask what dimension measures and the answers proliferate without converging...

Metastructural Practice

The problem with sculpture is not that it exists in three dimensions but that it presumes dimensionality is settled...

Literary Sculpture

Metastructural practice need not be physical. Borges's Library of Babel exemplifies literary sculpture...

Invisible Dimensions

Contemporary technology increasingly operates through dimensional frameworks invisible to intuition...

On Paths and Structure

Every point is connected to at least one other; isolation negates labyrinthhood. Every space can be reached by some path...

On Perception and Subject

Distinct nodes may appear identical to the traveler. The labyrinth allows perceptual indistinguishability...

On Boundaries and Infinity

The labyrinth is a bounded manifold distinguishing interior from exterior—even if topologically they coincide...

On Transformation and Paradox

The inverse of all paths preserves the labyrinth's nature. The labyrinth cannot be reduced to a simple linear order...