Palace of Tears
“Wall Dress”Curated by: Hadas Maor
Ein Harod Museum of Art
2002
Nelly Agassi operates in the fragile realm between the neural, sensitive interior and the spatial, public exterior. She exposes a delicate texture of inner signals, whether voluntary or involuntary, in an inner frequency without a verbal language.
At present, in a battered and bruised society whose skin is thick, Agassi searches for the inner pulse, aiming at the intimate, fine beat of the private.
Before a sensitive, indifferent, controlled or accidental audience, she is absorbed in her own action, traversing one by one the skin covering, the garment, the built-up space, the social ritual. She does so through practice devoid of pathos, ideology or floridity. In the exposed public sphere she weaves a mundane choreography comprised of ordinary,... Read More
Preparation embroidery