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NAGI GIANNI
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Nagi Gianni's artistic practice explores the forms, movements, and representations of the body. Through sculptures, installations, and performances, he questions the human condition, its vulnerabilities, and alienations in its confrontation with alterity. Metamorphosis becomes a space of emancipation, redefining the relationship between the intimate and the external, inner life and visibility. His sculptures, derived from casts and bodily fragments, capture tensions and postures, engaging in dialogue with the living body in his performances. Masks and prostheses shift the body's boundaries, opening up possibilities for its mutations. Drawing from an imaginary world populated by spectral, animal, and cyborg figures, Nagi Gianni challenges societal and bodily norms, inviting an exploration of dimensions such as dreams and the invisible, beyond the rationalizing frameworks of Western thought. His work has been presented in Switzerland and internationally, in art centers, theatres, and festivals (Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Arsenic Lausanne, Tinguely Museum Basel, CCA Warsaw, among others)
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STAGE WORKS
2022
- Still Crashing - ARSENIC centre d'art scénique contemporain, Lausanne / TU Théâtre de l’Usine, Genève
2021
- ANTILOPES - TU Théâtre de l’Usine, Genève / ARSENIC centre d'art scénique contemporain, Lausanne
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
- Screens, Sand Dunes and the Contours of Your Face - CCA Ujazdowski, Warsaw
2018
- I Need a Gangsta, to Love Me Better - TOPIC, Genève
2015
- p0ster, Editions Guilty by association - LO/A, Paris -
- Parade of wandering bodies – Xpo gallery, Paris
2014
- Entre deux suffocations - Centre d’art Métaxu, Toulon
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GROUP SHOWS
2022
- Bourses BLCG de la Ville de Genève - CAC Genève
- BANG BANG - Histoire:s translocale:s de la performance - Musée Tinguely, Basel
2021
- de l’Ekumen :: Pétrel I Roumagnac duo - g. Valeria Cetraro, Paris
2020
- Estrangement Sessions - Luma Westbau, Zürich
2018
- swiss performance award - Museum Tinguely, Basel
- 24H-shop, c. Patricia Bianchi - Kir Royal, Zürich
- TMF 24/7, c. Elena Montesinos - Halle Nord, Genève
2017
- Slowly vanishing...feathers! Glittered and burned. - Listrik, Montreux
- de rêves, acte 1, jardin, c. Marie-Salomé Peyronnel - Elizabeth Street Garden, New York USA
2016
- SHEVALS, collective performance - BONE Festival, Bern
- Kabaret de Künstler, performance program by Manuel Scheiwiller for Manifesta 11 - Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
- Une exposition de rêve :: Pétrel I Roumagnac (duo) - galerie Escougnou-Cetraro, Paris
2015
- Affleurement, carte blanche d’Aurélie Pétrel - Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
- A nos corps défendants, Christian Gattinoni & YP - Rencontres Photographiques du 10ème, Paris
- The Day After, Nagi Gianni & YP - Espace Labo, Genève
2014
- Tribal Tribu-te, YP - Centre d’art Métaxu / galerie L’Axolotl, Toulon
- After - Galerie Düo, Paris
- Homes to sell, HEAD Genève - Fieldwork Marfa, Marfa TX, USA
2013
- Mois européen de la photographie de Sofia, YP - Sofia
- Festival PERFORM NOW! - Winterthur
- RAOUT artistique - Le Commun (BAC), Genève
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FILM FESTIVALS
2018
- The Earth Day Festival - Chico CA, USA
- UnDependence film festival - Edinburg
- ShortCut cineFest, Bucharest
2017
- Wolves Independent Film Festival, Lithuania
2016
- The blind leading the blind, festival vidéo queer, YP - Centre d’art contemporain La Traverse, Paris
2015
- Là où je réside l’absurde domine, festival Micro-vidéo - Centre d’art Metaxu, Toulon
- Record my screaming body – cinéma Spoutnik, Genève
2014
- Festival Côté Court - Pantin (Paris)
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RESIDENCIES
2023
- Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2019
- Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
2018
- danceWEB @ ImpulsTanz international dance festival, Vienna
2014
- Centre d’art Métaxu / galerie L’Axolotl, related to the exhibition Tribal Tribu-te
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EDUCATION
2015-2016 Master of Arts « pratique de l’art » / Erg Bruxelles
2011-2014 Bachelor of Arts / Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design de Genève HEAD
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