Agnes Nedregard, performance works

A more sanctified animal, capable of lofty thought, who could have dominion over the rest, did not exist until then. Man was born. Either the creator of all things, origin of a better world, made him from divine seed; or it was the earth, recently separated from heaven and still holding celestial seeds, that the son of lapetus [Prometheus] moulded into the image of all-controlling gods, mixing it with rainwater.

While the other animals are bent downward, looking at the ground, man was given an upward countenance, and was ordered to behold the sky and lift his erected face toward the stars.

Ovid, Metamorphoses I.76-86 (Trans. B.B. Imwinkelried)

The publication features a selection of photographs, drawings and texts by Agnes Nedregård, and essays by Amelia Jones, Bob Dickinson, Branko Boero Imwinkelried, Olivier Lussac, and Tommy Olsson with graphic design by Slovenian Novi Kolektivizem, the design section of NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst).

Agnes Nedregård, Performance Works: The Big Toe looks at Nedregärd's work from a diversity of perspectives and media, including a photo essay studying horizontality/verticality and bent/straight lines. Using Henri Lefebvre and Georges Bataille as a point of departure, this photo essay focuses on Nedregard's subversion of vertical erectility and the artist's counter-agenda of explosive bendability.