Inside the Void of Universal Friction

Navid Nuur explores sensory and physical experiences both in the production processes of his works and in the context of the relationships the audience establishes with them. Rather than associating his practice with any particular medium, Nuur defines his works, which examine the bodily, spatial and temporal possibilities surrounding physical experience, with the word “intermodule” – an expression coined as a combination of the words “interim” and “module” to connote intermediate space. His work titled "Inside the Void of Universal Friction" directs the viewer’s gaze through a small box to the depths of space. The installation consists of a slide projector holding pieces of crumpled and perforated aluminium foil, a styrofoam box and a ball of aluminium foil placed on the slide tray like a planet or a star. Thus, the slide projector projects an image resembling the twinkling stars of a night sky. A playful reconstruction of the macrocosm within a microcosm, the crumpled aluminium foil ball on the slide tray also spins as the tray turns, rotating on its axis like an imaginary celestial body.