Fade From View
HD video / 1min58 / 2015
co-creation with Alex Freiheit
This performance is based on a close interaction between the protagonist and the camera, which plays an active role in documenting and analyzing each gesture. The protagonist’s wandering leads the audience into the raw space of a basement, the image almost becoming fantastic, with a pictorial quality. The performer addresses the ‘other’ in her native language, Polish, while dialoguing with and hiding behind fragments of masks, second skins. A meeting with otherness, even alienation.
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concept, creation: Nagi Gianni & Alex Freiheit
texts, performance: Alex Freiheit
camera, editing, mask: Nagi Gianni
Lasting Beast
HD video / 18min / 2017
co-created with Raphaëlle Mueller​
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2024 / sculpture-installation / acrylic resin, fiberglass, pigments, woods / 110 x 200 x 160 cm
open studio Atelier Genève, Wiesenstrasse 29 - Berlin
Lasting Beast explores the links between two characters in a human-scale terrarium. Their relationship develops through parades and actions where human affects hybridize to animal behaviors. In this flux of passions and conflicts, the boundaries between the human-animal-vegetable-mineral realms becomes porous and reveal themselves in a strange viscous matter.
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script, directing: Nagi Gianni et Raphaëlle Mueller
camera: Carmen Jaquier
second camera: Raphaëlle Mueller
cast : Lidia Kopina, Valentin Puyau
masks & costumes: Nagi Gianni
set design & lights: Raphaëlle Mueller
tattoos: Frédéric Wyss
editing : Kostas Makrinos
sound design : Thierry Simonot
sound mixing : Charles Menger
color correction : Raphaël Frauenfelder
poster & graphic design : Sonia Dominguez
