A River Runs Through Me, Paris
The most recent project of antoinette Nausikaä, A River Runs Through Me, Paris, explores the manifestation of nature and harmony within the formal structures of a city. In this project, Nausikaä takes us on her long journeys. The quiet moments invite reflection. With the fossils and the steaming water, she points us to the endless nature with human figures as its counterpart, our temporary body with all its emotions.
This project was nominated for Somfy Photography Award 2020 and exhibited at Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam.
Driven by a personal need to find balance and stillness within a rapidly changing world, Antoinette Nausikaä explores interconnectedness within our direct everyday environment. She creates investigative long-term and site-specific projects at places where culture and nature intertwine. It is the balance between the two that fascinate her.
By using photography, drawing, video and sculpture as her artistic mediums, she analyses and literally zooms in and out on her surroundings. Researching how the human abstract relates to the natural organic, the mundane to the transcendent, or permanence to impermanence. Her aim is to show that things are inextricably linked and influence each other, as well as that there is no such thing as a single perspective on a subject.
With her works, installations and publications Antoinette Nausikaä aims to show the interconnectedness intrinsic to the environment. Offering the viewer a space for contemplation and sharing her personal research into our “invisible” relationships with the immediate environment, Nausikaä’s art attempts at bridging the everyday life with the transcendental, the (apparently) ordinary and the mysterious.