Lemniscate XIV, 2021

The artwork pledge

• NO POVERTY
• ZERO HUNGER
• GENDER EQUALITY
• AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
• INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
• SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
• RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
• CLIMATE ACTION
• LIFE BELOW WATER
• LIFE ON LAND

Tags

• Abstract
• Andrei Tarkovsky
• Anthropocene
• Architecture
• Collective Memory
• Contemporary Archaeology
• Donna Haraway
• Dystopia
• Félix Guattari
• Geology
• Gilles Deleuze
• Jorge Luis Borges
• London
• Manuel DeLanda
• Max Frisch
• Memory Space
• Mixed Media
• Moscow
• Object-oriented Ontology
• Philosophy of Architecture
• Posthuman
• Post-Soviet
• Rachel Whiteread
• Rem Koolhaas
• Russia
• Sculpture 3D
• Sigmund Freud
• Social
• United Kingdom
• Urban
• Urban archaeology
• Urban decay

About this artwork

The Lemniscate series consists of various sculptures made from wooden banisters reclaimed from old houses and then repurposed and fitted together so that they form an infinite loop. A lemniscate is a mathematical term for the figure eight, or an infinity loop, consisting of two loops that meet at a central point. While the sculpture doesn’t necessarily follow strictly this form, the concept of the infinite loop remains the same. The banisters have been touched by multiple hands before they became a material for the artwork, and Nika Neelova calls it the choreography of the absent human body. The absence of the body in itself makes a powerful image, drawing upon both the presence and absence of existence, both infinitely tied together.

Nika Neelova focuses her artistic research on highlighting the relationship and the continuous exchange between the human body, the surrounding architectural space, and the geology of the earth through its complexity and morphology. She employs salvaged architecture to reveal unknown pasts and unite them with the present. Her sculptures and installations evoke associations with history, collective memory, and an imagined post-human future.

More artworks by Nika Neelova

• Nika Neelova Lateral cuts II. Models of internal architectural cross-sections,, 2020 Osnova Gallery €4,500
• Nika Neelova Lateral cuts series III. Models of internal architectural cross-sections, 2020 Osnova Gallery €4,500
• Nika Neelova Stratigraphy, 2019 Osnova Gallery €7,500
• Nika Neelova Untitled (ikea stools), 2017 Osnova Gallery €5,000

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