{"id":1479,"date":"2022-02-20T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T13:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artists.wwwnlsrc4.supercp.com\/?post_type=exhibitions&#038;p=1479"},"modified":"2022-03-16T20:01:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T20:01:18","slug":"homeseek","status":"publish","type":"exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/exhibitions\/homeseek\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeseek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Nelly Agassi\u2019s works are identified with the figure of the slender woman who recurs as a self-portrait of sorts in large-scale sculptures as well as small-scale drawings. This minor exhibition strives to shed light, for the first time, on her modestly sized two-dimensional works. It features near-miniature models of self-made icons with which she has been engaged in the past decade, since moving to Chicago.<span id=\"more-19767\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Agassi presents four series of small works: drawn, sewn, and embroidered dresses; a model of a house obtained by cutting, excavating, and burrowing in black oak tag; collages depicting the woman as a house, a blueprint, a constructive woman, and a great mother; and a combination of past embroideries and delicate gold jewels, some shaped as predators, which spawns a new surreal language all her own.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Via embroidery, she creates remedial, elegant, and optimistic beauty which is born from movement between contrasting axes: small and large, death and life, black and white, sculpture and drawing, Israel and America, past and present, adolescence and motherhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2263,"template":"","categories":[204],"artists":[411],"exhibition":[412],"curator":[413],"years":[142,156],"class_list":["post-1479","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solo-exhibitions","artists-nelly-agassi","exhibition-homeseek-en","curator-marie-shek","years-2018-en","years-2019-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"exhibition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"curator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/curator?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}