2022
COPING TIMES
Performance Series
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.
The project was created during a two-month art residency at the Ria Keburia Foundation as part of the Artist In Exile program by Ipureland. Multiple performances took place both within and beyond the residency grounds. Photo and video documentation of the performances not only contribute to Dagnini's bestiary archive but also take on new life in her subsequent projects and exhibitions. In the autumn of 2023, new video works incorporating fragments of the performances were showcased at Danina's solo exhibition at Smallville Space (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and a group exhibition at Fragment Gallery (NY, USA).
IDK HOW TO DESCRIBE IT BUT THE PEAS ARE UPSIDE DOWN (Neuchatel, Switzerland)
FOLLOWING THE BODY (NY, USA)
IDK HOW TO DESCRIBE IT BUT THE PEAS ARE UPSIDE DOWN (Neuchatel, Switzerland)
FOLLOWING THE BODY (NY, USA)
