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Niki Kanagini

Introduction Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Section 5 Section 6 Landscape Movement Column Untitled Manuscript for the Potential Viewer or Reader Domestic Scene (1) Domestic Scene (2) Ode to things Domestic Scene (3) Address Book Manuscripts Aphrodite Manuscripts The Walls Have Their Say Journey. Works and Days Attire Cleanliness – Purification – Fruit Washed Well, Try Some Trilogy – Female Angels

Niki Kanagini

Domestic Scene (1)

In this Domestic Scene installation, the artist replaces the clothes hung from an ordinary metal drying rack with exact silkscreen replicas that depict stylised abstract landscapes. The routine chore of hanging laundry out to dry is transformed into a ritual act, inducting the microcosm of domesticity into the realm of art with the subversive intent of “exorcising the ennui of repetitious daily life inside the home,” as the artist herself put it. These screenprints were first presented hung from a line in the artist’s solo exhibition at the Iolas-Zoumboulakis Gallery in 1976, before being reexhibited later in a different configuration and with the addition of the drying rack in 1993 as part of the Feminine Gender exhibition at the House of Cyprus cultural centre. At this latter exhibition, Kanagini ventured a more direct treatment of issues relating to gender identity and gendered experience, one shaped by her own experiences.