X=VT
Curated by: Adi Englman, Jaromir Jedliński
Foksal, Warsaw
2008
In the works which Nelly Agassi has prepared especially for the show at the Foksal Gallery, she used various means of artistic expression (performance, sound, video, prints, and objects). During the performance which is prepared for the opening of the exhibition, a construction will appear in the middle of the main hall of the gallery, consisting of a metal cart and a transparent container (resembling a hospital incubator). A motionless figure of the artist, enlightened with the light from two fluorescent lamps, will be lying in the container. An image displayed by a projector, presenting a delicate palm clenched into a fist and banging insistently on the wall appears will appear on the white front wall, as if unrealistically demanding to open the white wall. A somewhat neurotic sound – which calls to mind rapid heartbeats or the restless tick of a metronome – pulsates through the gallery, arousing a sense of restlessness and urgency in the minds and bodies of the audience... Read More