"Nelly Agassi: No Limestone, No Marble"

Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor North

DCASE Exhibitions

Nelly Agassi’s solo exhibition, “No Limestone, No Marble” is a site-specific installation in the monumental Chicago Rooms gallery at the Chicago Cultural Center, curated by Ionit Behar and designed by Andrew Schachman. Israeli-born Chicago-based artist Agassi calls this project a “biography of the site” in which she develops a personal relationship with the past, present, and future history of a place in connection to her own. With this methodology, Agassi “sculpts” the site as a material, and creates a project from the specificity of the place in relation to the city of Chicago and the institution’s impact. A publication and performances are being planned in conjunction with this exhibition.

“No Limestone, No Marble” is funded in part by Artis.

Image credit: Nelly Agassi, Lady CCC. Courtesy of the artist.