LOT 122
| Technique | Work on paper |
| Size | 30 x 22 cm |
| Availability | Available |
| Donation | 50% |
Architectural Woman, 2021 Work on paper
Architectural Woman is built from printed floor plans by three of Tel Aviv's first women architects: Lotte Cohn, the first woman architect in Mandatory Palestine; Genia Averbuch, designer of Dizengoff Square; and Elsa Gidoni Mandelstamm, who shaped the city's women's institutions. Layering their historic blueprints onto paper, the work transforms technical drawings into a bodily presence — a record of female professional lives the city absorbed into its walls while forgetting their names. Architectural Woman insists on that memory.
About Nelly Agassi
Chicago-based Nelly Agassi is a multi-disciplinary artist working in performance, installation, video, and tactile media. Her process features obsessive, repetitive actions that function as a gripping point, a connection to reality and safe ground. Agassi's practice reflects a post-feminist shift, exploring femininity from a position of privilege and choice. Although her work references traditional domestic crafts like embroidery, sewing, and knitting, Agassi employs these materials in unconventional, non-functional ways to generate new meanings.
Agassi's site-specific works merge personal an architectural stories, revealing glimpses of spatial biography through her lived experience. Primarily using materials, body, and space, she creates intimate dialogues within public environments and their stories.
Holding MFAs from Chelsea College and BFAs from Central St. Martins, London, Agassi's work has been exhibited internationally at venues like Tate Modern, The Israel Museum, the Triennale di Milano and Zacheta in Warsaw. Notable projects include collaborations with Lady Dior and Sonia Rykiel. In Chicago, her work has been exhibited at The Graham Foundation, Chicago Cultural Center and The Arts Club of Chicago. Her work was recently acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago.
Recent and upcoming projects include her collaboration with Tod's, solo exhibitions at Foksal Gallery Warsaw (Fall 2023), The International Museum of Surgical Science (Fall 2024), Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, and The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, among others.
Nelly is a co-founder of the nonprofit organization Fieldwork Collaborative Projects and a 2019 Graham Foundation Fellow.
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