Exposition

Contiguous (Enlightenment Panel no 1) (2024)

Zoe Panagiota (aka Betty) Nigianni

About this exposition

Painting, digital video with dance performance, 2010-2011. Apartment renovation in central Athens (with Sean A. Hladkyj), 2016-17. 1. What happens at the borders where two colours meet? Purposefully exposing by meticulously smudging the edges of painted surfaces shows that there is a small area at the margins that remains undecided. 2. How do we formalise external sensory information? Experimenting with painterly techniques, such as pouring paint directly onto paper and moving the paper around to apply liquid paint, for the larger painting, I methodically applied processes of rationalisation and abstraction for painting a tree branch from life. The research for the painting and the final work were produced during a painting workshop at the Slade School of Fine Art. The digital video was recorded at one of the rehearsals for a dance performance by choreographer J. Y. Corti at the London Contemporary Dance School. The title "Enlightenment Panel" comes from Peter Sloterdijk's 'Critique of Cynical Reason', published in 1983, which critically discusses philosophical and popular cynicism.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsabstraction, conceptual scheme, borders, Colour, improvisation, empire, environmentally directed beliefs, painting-as-discourse, modernism
date16/02/2020
published02/01/2024
last modified02/01/2024
statuspublished
share statusshared with registered RC users
copyrightZ.P.Nigianni
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/798582/1030211
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.798582
published inResearch Catalogue


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