Sand it Better, 2002

The artwork pledge

• QUALITY EDUCATION
• GENDER EQUALITY
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

Tags

• Anni Albers
• Fascism
• Feminism
• Gender
• Israel
• Marina Abramović
• Mixed Media
• North America
• Performance Art
• Portrait
• Social
• Textile Arts
• United States

About this artwork

Nelly Agassi uses her body as a platform on which she performs repetitive actions dealing with femininity, physical pain, and emotional experiences. From the beginning of her career in the mid-1990s, Agassi's video works have documented these actions with an immediacy that resonates with the art of the 1970s, which placed the body at the forefront. Yet, the intimacy of her work distinguishes Agassi from those artists who used the body for ideological purposes. Though in many of her works Agassi seems to record mundane actions, their slow, meditative repetition transforms them into powerful rituals that expose the fragility of the body and its limitations, while conveying both lyricism and drama.

More artworks by Nelly Agassi

• Nelly Agassi Burnt, 2000 Dvir Gallery €5,675
• Nelly Agassi Drawing No. 2, 2014 Dvir Gallery €5,675
• Nelly Agassi Drawing No. 3, 2014 Dvir Gallery €5,675

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