Nelly Agassi and Marianna Rodziewicz confront human sexuality and carnality in different ways. But is it really only human?
Rodziewicz's objects tell a story of 'monstrous' femininity, embodying the punishment that can fall on a woman if she does not submit to sexual manners. Excessively flamboyant female sexuality ends up turning her into a monster, an alien, a monstrosity straight out of H.R. Giger's vision and Ridley Scott's "Alien" - or is it, after all, a celebration and positive embracing of this monstrosity?
Nelly Agassi's prints and animations also refer to Victorian convention, referencing the overwhelming fear of naked sex characteristic for that era through animal metamorphoses. Both give an account of the struggle for independence in our neo-Victorian era of heightened moral control of women.
Agata Pyzik