In her poetics, Nikita Gale explores the relationship between ordinary materials and power. She is particularly interested in how silences and (in)visibilities establish critical political dispositions. With a background in anthropology, archaeology, and new genres, Gale’s creative process is shaped by experiences that go beyond the visual arts, operating across transdisciplinary paths.
From her research emerges Private dancer, an installation composed of trusses commonly used in stage lighting, arranged in unconventional configurations, alongside programmed lights that dance to the rhythm of Tina Turner’s song, which gives the piece its title. This immersive and silent environment invites the viewer to navigate a zone of uncertainties and experience moments of estrangement through which a new relationship is produced. A space-time is created that enables reflections on consumer technologies as a means of mediation and extension of the body, as well as on automation in contemporary performance.
Diego Hasse
Nikita Gale (United States, 1983) is a visual artist and anthropologist. Their work explores the relationship between materials, power, and attention and examines how silence, noise, and visibility function as political positions and conditions. Their installations blur formal and disciplinary boundaries, engaging with concerns of mediation and automation in contemporary performance. Their work has recently been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Chisenhale Gallery, LAXART, 52 Walker, MoMA PS1, and Kunstraum Kreuzberg, among other institutions. They live in Los Angeles, United States.
