No Limestone No Marble

Curated By: Ionit Behar
Chicago Cultural Center
2022 - 23

“The line between public and private no longer coincides with the outer limit of a building. We might even argue that the envelope is no longer to be found on the outside. It has coiled itself up within an imaginary body.”

–Beatriz Colomina, “Skinless Architecture,” 2003.

Nelly Agassi: No Limestone, No Marble is a site-specific exhibition of Israeli-born Chicago-based artist Nelly Agassi (b. 1973) developed in direct conversation with the Chicago Cultural Center’s “Chicago Room” and the building as a whole. If architectural discourse has from its beginning associated building and body, this formulation requires that we abandon the traditional thought of architecture as object, and start thinking of it as a system of representations just like drawings, collages, sculpture, and sound... Read More

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