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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

Manuscript for the Potential Viewer or Reader

The large-scale Manuscripts in pencil dating from the 1980s are presented alongside chairs to accommodate “potential viewers and readers,” creating a space for two-way communication and the active participation of visitors. The notion of “viewer-readers” is an expression of Kanagini’s intent to create the contemplative and sequestered conditions necessary for her visual texts to be viewed/read – to “impose an atmosphere of concentration that can perhaps help them journey off alone, wherever and however they like,” is how she put it. Visitors are invited to sit down on a chair and immerse themselves in the labyrinthine pathways and images, or else create pathways of their own. This section includes large-scale pencil-drawn manuscripts from the 1980s where writing functions as a personal and often cryptic abstract narrative creating an expansive plain for interpretation and contemplation that allows viewers to activate their own imaginations.