Exposition

You and Me and Everything Around Us (2020)

Zoe Panagiota (aka Betty) Nigianni

About this exposition

Single channel video, 3’, 2008 The probe for the work was the philosophical question what it is to exist in the world: in environments, with others, people, objects, surfaces; and whether the answer can be intuited. The work evokes the temporality of such experiences, which is contingent upon the ever-changing nature of things. Objects have often had multiple owners, and so they carry traces of previous worlds. When encountering objects new to us, we may find ourselves appropriating them through affective attachment to assimilate them into our world. Inspired by the everyday lives of the house's occupants, the work is also about the affective bonds developed during and because of their temporary co-existence. Experimentation with overlaying resonates with the artistic expression of overlapping materials, textures, spatial qualities, and reflected images. Photographs, film footage and sounds were recorded in an improvised way over a one year period in an old house in Walthamstow, East London. The artistic treatment of the subject matter as a time-based media assemblage, which exploits the home style video format, critiques popular staged presentations of everyday life, while exploring the house as an evolving over time system.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsobject, affect, temporality, everydayness, metaphor, representation
date01/10/2016
published02/02/2020
last modified02/02/2020
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightBetty Nigianni
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/299217/299218
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.299217
published inResearch Catalogue


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