The intimacy and interiority of Agassi's work and its reference to the female body identify it with post-feminist art. As do the artist's physical presence and the use of knitting, classically attributed to the 'feminine.'
In 2003, Agassi won the prestigious Nathan Gottesdiener Prize for Israeli Art. Ten years later, in a show in honor of the same prize, she presented Bedroom, a piece that stamped itself in the local imagination. In this piece Agassi "conquered" a large hall by "building" a gigantic bed that filled the entire space while sitting still and tiny in the far distance in a perfect, white bed. The resulting image reminds one of Alice in Wonderland's size shifts, but there's no childhood ease here; the work generates a tense hush.
Agassi's work has been shown in leading venues including the Herzliya Museum and Tel Aviv Museum in Israel, and the Chelsea Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
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Gallery Foksal, Warsaw |