M Gallery, CICA Museum
May 28 – June 1, 2025
2025.5.28 – 6.1
An intimate view of Kinetic Euphoria
The work that I present at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art is a group of portraits. Small and intimate, each excuted with minimal means : a line made of oil floating on a white gessoed wooden board. The line embeds itself with purity in what may appear as void space, but is in fact the Everything in the appearance of Nothingness. Seemingly vacant, the white space carries its own infinite vibration and is energized by the line, much as the space around a person has its own life and is simultaneously enlivened by the person inhabiting it. Hearing and seizing this resonance engenders an experience I call « Kinetic Euphoria ». Sounds for me have shapes, and shapes emit sounds. The portraits are visual recordings of the sounds I hear in the presence of the sitter, an echoing of our verbal and non verbal exchanges, and a capture of the propagation of those exchanges through the space we share. The line that records this experience on the white surface is free, unconcerned with didactics. Precision without description. The presence of the less seen making itself known. Realism not as a depiction. Realism as a feeling. As an essence. Like sound : a vibratory constant that lives inside and beside us. I have heard this vibratory constant throughout my life, and when I talk to a person, I hear its particular frequency within that person. Each frequency of each individual is unique. I have chosen to exhibit this series of small portraits in order to share with visitors my intimate experience of this uniqueness and diversity. I believe through art we can be made aware of these experiences, affecting how we feel about each other’s existence and reminding us of a higher purpose.
Born in Houston, Texas, of Basque and Native American ancestry, Nina Anduiza lives and works in Belgium. Her artworks take on the form of sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs and installations. Assiduously practicing visual arts from an earlier age, she first studied at the Glassell School of Arts, the Rix Jennings Art Studio and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, before moving to Boston where she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Art’s degree from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Her work has received numerous distinctions, among them the Melissa Beth Meyers Award, from Tufts University ; the Annual Prize from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation ; the Eben Demarest Trust Annual Award, upon nomination by the famed Menil Collection (Houston) and the National Sculpture Society (New York). Her work has also been featured in many publications. The great dancer, choreographer and plastician Akarova, whom she met in the later years of her life, said of Nina Anduiza that “she possesses the Mystery”. In quest of the origins of consciousness and the foundations of thought, for the two decades following her graduation, Nina Anduiza primarily dedicated herself to an inner journey within the intimacy of her studio, exploring the furthest reaches of her multi-layered heritage in order to better render, through the manifestations of her art, the universality that binds all sentient beings together. This introspection did not get in the way of a few public appearances, often in homage to other creators such as the sculptor Jef Lambeaux and the poet Jacques Izoard, where her artworks were noted for the unique power they emit. At the crossroads of her Basque and Native American origins, her concept of art is nourished simultaneously by the Occidental tradition, whose cultural legacy she consummately masters, and by a deep belief in the ritualistic essence of art, that is to say a belief in the power of art to induce a spiritually transformative experience. Through their radically original expression, her artworks awaken an intense emotion. The meaningfulness of their figurative themes resonates with the purely aesthetic experience of their remarkably abstract materiality, releasing within our most intimate self a plurality of harmonics that set our entire humanity into vibration. Nina Anduiza is intimately convinced that the core of emotion is solely conveyed by the immediacy of the artist’s gesture, as an unfiltered mediation of the body animated by the energy of Being in creation. Master of her own technique, she creates and directly produces herself each of her artworks. Later she decides to show them in their bare essence or combined in the form of installations, depending upon the discourse that she wishes to put forth. In 2024, she co-founded the Atoma Art Center with architect Gilles Dehareng. Located near the Wiels in Brussels, the 4000 sqm art facility hosts art residencies, exhibition premises and accommodation for visiting artists. Along with the continuation of her introspection and her production, she now also commits herself to the unveiling of her multilayered universe through the ever-evolving installation called « Sentience », hosted in a dedicated space at the Atoma Art Center, as well as in collaboration with gallerist Constantin Chariot.
