Stratigraphy, 2019

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 name refers to the stratigraphic study of the soil and the distinction between the different layers of the archeological materials, allowing to distinguish a relative chronology based on the sequentiality of the layers and an absolute chronology based on the material clusters. Nika Neelova replicates this series of stratigraphy thanks to a method that consists in daily applications of chemical and coloured powders and residues of jesmonite, recreating the patterns of the geological formations. This process of sedimentation is replicated manually in order to recreate natural aggregates consisting of minerals and debris apparently originating from an artificial post-human geology. This process highlights the passing of time, by going backwards, deleting the layers and making them invisible, in order to understand their evolution and change. (Domenico de Chirico)

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 Lemniscate XIV, 2021 Osnova Gallery €9,500
• Nika Neelova Untitled (ikea stools), 2017 Osnova Gallery €5,000

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