Artist Nakisa Dehpanah’s new show uses suspended textile forms and movement to explore identity as something layered and always changing.

Seattle artist Nakisa Dehpanah’s work hovers between sculpture and performance. First developed during a residency at Base Art Space, Suspended Selves is now on view at Method Gallery in Pioneer Square, where billowy, vessel-like sheer fabric forms hang with geometric clay elements integrated into them. They seem like soft shelters or skins waiting for an inhabitant, or yearning for a previous one, but they also hold their own, like living creatures.