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Exposition

(Un)Realised Projects (last edited: 2025)

Betty Nigianni
Zoe Panagiota (aka Betty) Nigianni

About this exposition

"Unlike unrealized architectural projects, which are frequently exhibited and circulated, unrealized artworks tend to remain unnoticed or little known. But perhaps there is another form of artistic agency in the partial expression, the incomplete idea, the projection of a mere intention? Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP) seeks to document and display these works, in this way charting the terrain of a contingent future." From AUP-eflux Archive In painting, the artist can also be a model for the artwork. In performance art, artist and model come together for the performance. The exposition explores the role of figuration in contemporary art, at the same time posing questions about physical beauty, from the artist's perspective. I set out to examine how to illustrate beauty, while challenging norms and stereotypes of who is perceived as beautiful. I explore the notion of love, in a complementary manner, also in this exposition, as I do in subsequent expositions. Some of the material was selected for my participation, with my artistic pseudonym, Betty Nigianni, in conceptual artist's Janine Antoni workshop, "Loving Care", Performance Matters: Performing Idea, Toynbee Studios, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2010 With essay about Marina Abramovic's work, published at eflux/Art and Education papers, 2012; originally presented as a conference paper at the Yale Centre for British Art, 2010, slides including the artist's writings. Fragments of the research for the installation project, developed in the studio and through my participation in urban research workshops, have been archived at AUP-eflux Archive.

type	research exposition
keywords	Installation Art, Painting, design, architecture, performance, Sculpture, pilgrimage, abstraction, figure, Sacred, beauty, love
date	22/03/2023
last modified	28/07/2025
status	in progress
share status	public
copyright	Z.P.Nigianni
license	All rights reserved
language	British English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2042043/2042044
external link	https://aup.e-flux.com/about/

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