Exhibition duration: until 06.08.2021
Opening hours by appointment
This exhibition is presented by LT.art Vienna and is an official event of XX Art Flanerie 2021: MAY YOU LIVE IN LIQUID TIMES festival
About exhibtion:
Nancie Naive and her life become a product offered to the public. In “I am Nancie”, she proposes a self-expansion, a reflection of a pop star in a camera lens. The star and the camera meet in battlefields: photo studios, city streets, the Improper Walls gallery. It is a Nancie Naive-advertising campaign created by Nancie Naive herself, in which she is a work of art, a product, a commodity, and a poster showing how things become important in the light of glory, even if they are not.
About performance:
"Buy Me, God"
The space of "Improper Walls" echoes with the sound of high-heels. Elegant steps seem to float in the air – she walks on earth just the way she walks in Heaven. She manifests as contemporary Mary, – a common girl with the name of the Mother of God's. She's now been blessed. Her body becomes your daily bread, your earnings, your money. Her body is the indulgence of the 21st century, a sacred currency. Nancie redeems her sins with her own self, she sells herself, bodily sacrifices to God. She is the lamb, the snake, she is a divine coin. Her phantom foretells the misfortune neither of future, nor of past, but of today – a peculiar, distant existence and a careless death of ecclesiastical faith.
Performance took place as a part of XX Art Flânerie 2021 festival.
Video: Christopher Ramos
About artist:
Nancie Naive (Emilė Skolevičiūtė, b. 1997) is an emerging superstar in the scenes of contemporary art and pop. Nancie lives and works in Vilnius. Having started her creative career at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, she has appeared in exhibitions in Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Austria. It is the concept of the “superstar” that encompasses all the issues that interest her - a meticulous representation of a modern woman, the iconography on social networks and in the crusades of endless excess supply.
www.behance.net/nancienaive
www.instagram.com/nancienaive
Photos: Maria Belova
