There are many different vantage points from which to consider Daiga Grantina’s sculptural work, installed in the lobby gallery at the New Museum. There’s the distant view upon entering the museum, when one can see the total installation as a singular piece on the other side of a clear glass wall. Closer up among the exhibition, the various suspended works become distinct, although referential, microcosms in and of themselves.
Artist Daiga Grantina came to the museum with a smaller, modeled vision of how she wanted her works to be installed in the unique museum space, located at the back of its ground floor on the other side of a clear glass wall. For the purpose of posing for a portrait — installing herself within the work — Grantina was similarly intentional with her outfit choice, choosing a wool blazer in a gray shade complementary to her work, so as to appear as if an extension of the installation.
“I started from the middle and I worked myself outward,” she says of coming into the space for the installation process. “At the same time, in the middle of the install, there was a moment when the depth came into the game and things

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