2022
COPING TIMES
Performance Series Ria Keburia Art Foundation Ipureland Artists in Exile Program
COPING TIMES
Performance Series
2022
Ria Keburia Art Foundation Ipureland Artists in Exile Program
Curator Yulia Yousma
This series of performative experiments investigate coping mechanisms – the ways in which our psyche adapts to stressful situations.
The error or systemic failure both in real and digital worlds is the main theme that visual and performance artist Dagnini explores in her practice. She creates personages that critically reflect on images from pop culture and art history, as well as addresses universal humanitarian issues. Characters from computer games, memes, or literary plots Dagnini combines with archetypal social "roles": the exhausted and emotionally burned out manager or politician, the objectified female body, endless kinds of marginalized and dehu-manized members of society. These images are chimeras of personal and collective psychological traumas, humanistic systems failures, and broken lives. Just like the complexity of the world grows in an endless process of mutual influence, her characters morph into one another, combining seemingly incompatible signs of modernity. Through them, Dagnini not only survives the challenges of her own experience of the instability of our world, but illustrates the most painful and confusing areas of our existence.
Performance Series
2022
Ria Keburia Art Foundation Ipureland Artists in Exile Program
Curator Yulia Yousma
This series of performative experiments investigate coping mechanisms – the ways in which our psyche adapts to stressful situations.
The error or systemic failure both in real and digital worlds is the main theme that visual and performance artist Dagnini explores in her practice. She creates personages that critically reflect on images from pop culture and art history, as well as addresses universal humanitarian issues. Characters from computer games, memes, or literary plots Dagnini combines with archetypal social "roles": the exhausted and emotionally burned out manager or politician, the objectified female body, endless kinds of marginalized and dehu-manized members of society. These images are chimeras of personal and collective psychological traumas, humanistic systems failures, and broken lives. Just like the complexity of the world grows in an endless process of mutual influence, her characters morph into one another, combining seemingly incompatible signs of modernity. Through them, Dagnini not only survives the challenges of her own experience of the instability of our world, but illustrates the most painful and confusing areas of our existence.
Since 2020
ME VS ME
Ongoing Object Series
ME COPING
2022
Stone bas-relief, wooden frame,
fishin line net, silk,
hand embroidery
27 x 27 cm
From Me Vs Me Series
ME VS ME
Object Series
Since 2020
An ongoing Series about the difficulties with one's relationship with oneself, complicated psychological states and mental health issues.Found objects – antique tapestries, embroideries or bas-reliefs infer different meanings as the artist adds text to their surface by hand. Antiques become physical memes with the inclusion of words embroidered over the surface. The principle of creating a virtual meme online by changing the meaning of the picture by adding a few words over it remains the same.
There is a dissonance between the object itself and the manifested issue. Often the colorful aesthetic of the object — its playful depiction is combined with more serious reflections.
https://dagnini.com/mememe
Object Series
Since 2020
An ongoing Series about the difficulties with one's relationship with oneself, complicated psychological states and mental health issues.Found objects – antique tapestries, embroideries or bas-reliefs infer different meanings as the artist adds text to their surface by hand. Antiques become physical memes with the inclusion of words embroidered over the surface. The principle of creating a virtual meme online by changing the meaning of the picture by adding a few words over it remains the same.
There is a dissonance between the object itself and the manifested issue. Often the colorful aesthetic of the object — its playful depiction is combined with more serious reflections.
https://dagnini.com/mememe
2023
IDK HOW TO DESCRIBE IT BUT THE PEAS ARE UPSIDE DOWN
Solo Show. Smallville Space, Neuchatel Switzerland
2023
FOLLOWING THE BODY
Group Show. Fragment Gallery, NYC
Four-channel video "I DECIDED TO MULTIPLY" is the video manifesto of Dagnini. The fragmented text is interwoven with fragments of documentation of the artist's performances and internet memes. In her performances, Dagnini pursues the obsessive idea of moving away from the familiar form of the human body. Bodies as a finished object, a social marker, and a prison of imagination. On the one hand, this quest is inherently doomed. Any attempt by the artist to acquire another form is just a game of transition, but for Dagnini, it's a serious game, and if there is even a moment when it is possible to disidentify, the "genie*" flies "out of the bottle."
* Referred to the song of Christina Aguilera, "Genie In A Bottle", RCA, 1999
* Referred to the song of Christina Aguilera, "Genie In A Bottle", RCA, 1999