{"id":8592,"date":"2025-03-24T17:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/?p=8592"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:21:26","slug":"nelly-agassi-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/en\/nelly-agassi-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelly Agassi “Aftermath”"},"content":{"rendered":"Nelly Agassi solo show Aftermath<\/em><\/p>\n

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Opening: April 4, 18:00<\/p>\n

Curated by T\u012bna P\u0113trsone<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe live in a time when the past seems more unpredictable than the future,\u201d wrote the British historian Eric Hobsbawm\u2014a sentiment that feels ever more prescient as headlines offer reinterpretations of history with increasing frequency. History has never been a fixed entity\u2014it has always been rewritten, reexamined, and reinterpreted. Yet today, these processes have reached an unprecedented intensity: historical understanding is entangled in ideological battles, muddled by the \u200boversaturation of digital media, and increasingly weaponized as a tool in political discourse. When narratives compete, overlap, and shift in form, how can we orient ourselves among the versions of history they propose?<\/span><\/p>\n

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This exhibition unfolds in a time of deep instability\u2014amid wars, shifts in power, and ideological rupture. Its central motif is rooted in the notion of \u201caftermath\u201d as a layered, nonlinear, and continuously evolving process. The word <\/span>aftermath <\/span><\/i>first appeared in 16th-century Middle English, when farmers used it to describe grass that regrew after mowing. Over time, it acquired a broader metaphorical meaning\u2014referring to the consequences of an event, especially in the wake of disaster, war, or major societal upheaval. Thus, the term encompasses both devastation and the potential for renewal\u2014a cyclical process in which the past never truly disappears but transforms and returns in altered form. This notion of cyclical return forms the conceptual axis of Nelly Agassi\u2019s first solo exhibition in the Baltic region.<\/span><\/p>\n

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At the heart of Agassi\u2019s practice lies the idea of a \u201cbiography of site\u201d\u2014an approach that treats a site\u2019s context as both a source of inquiry and a material in itself. During a week-long visit in Riga last November, Agassi visited local museums and wandered through the city, collecting visual impressions and engaging with traces of historical presence. These impressions reappear in her installations as fragments, gestures, and materials imbued with symbolic charge. <\/span>Aftermath<\/span><\/i> becomes both a meditation on what has been and an inquiry into a future (or a history?) still taking shape\u2014still possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nelly Agassi (b.1973, Israel) is a Chicago-based multi-disciplinary artist whose practice encompasses performance, installation, video, animation, textile, and works on paper. Her site-specific works explore the intersection of personal and architectural narratives, revealing fragments of spatial biography through the lens of her own lived experience. Working primarily with materials, body, and space, Agassi creates intimate dialogues between public spaces and their inherent histories. Agassi received her MFA from Chelsea College and BFA from Central St. Martins, London. Her work has been shown internationally at prestigious institutions including Tate Modern, The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, La Triennale di Milano, and Zacheta Warsaw. In Chicago, her work has been exhibited at The Graham Foundation, Chicago Cultural Center, The Arts Club of Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, and Poor Farm. Her work was recently acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago. Other notable presentations include the ORD T5 commission project at O’Hare International Terminal, WHOISPOLA Warsaw, Viennacontemporary art fair, and Fujiyoshida textile week (all in 2023). Agassi is currently an SAIC Residential Research Fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago Research Center. She is represented by Dvir Gallery and WHOISPOLA.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nelly Agassi solo show Aftermath   Opening: April 4, 18:00 Curated by T\u012bna P\u0113trsone   \u201cWe live in a time when the past seems more unpredictable than the future,\u201d wrote the British historian Eric Hobsbawm\u2014a sentiment that feels ever more prescient as headlines offer reinterpretations of history with increasing frequency. History has never been a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kim-exhibitions","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNelly Agassi "Aftermath" - Kim? 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