Untitled (ikea stools), 2017

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

A multitude of bent plaster bars are stacked one upon another, building a resemblance of a staircase or ladder on the wall. This set of plaster reliefs molded from IKEA stool legs is also covered in metallic powders of various colors, giving different subtle shades to the sculpture. The repurposing and transformation of banal, cheap materials is Nika Neelova’s way of returning to the individual physicality of the work and its raw, natural origins. There is a strong insistence on creating this work with one’s own hands, and a refusal of technological advances, which may have gone too far and detached the human from its humanity.

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 Stratigraphy, 2019 Osnova Gallery €7,500

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