Artwork by Alfred University Visiting Professor of Sculpture Bianca Abdi-Boragi, School of Art & Design, New York State College of Ceramics, has been lighting up Times Square in New York City for the month of August.
Artwork by Alfred University Visiting Professor of Sculpture Bianca Abdi-Boragi, School of Art & Design, New York State College of Ceramics, has been lighting up Times Square in New York City for the month of August.
Abdi-Boragi’s three-minute video Cotton Candy, featuring her friend Jonela Ruka is part of the Times Square Midnight Moment, the world’s largest and longest running digital public art program, presented by Times Square Arts. The playful, surreal, Baroque-tinged video performance exploring fulfillment, consumption and desire has been playing every evening on Times Square between 41st and 49th Streets from 11:57 pm to midnight on more than 96 screens.
It will continue lighting up the Times Square screens through the remainder of August. For more information on the exhibition, see:
https://www.timessquarenyc.org/artists/bianca-abdi-boragi
https://www.biancaboragi.net/cotton-candy.html
According to Abdi-Boragi’s website, the artist “works across media using sculpture, video, installation, painting to enact representations of self and others, often using found materials and landscapes as receptacles to address different states of being, with a specific focus on alienation and territory.
Abdi-Boragi is a French-Amazigh/ American interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Paris, France, who received her BFA from ENSAPC (Paris) and her MFA from the Yale School of Art, Sculpture, in 2017. Abdi-Boragi has been living in New York since 2010. Her shows have been featured on Artnet and the Brooklyn Rail, among other venues, and solo exhibitions of her work have been shown in the Border Project Space Gallery and CADAF Art Fair. She has exhibited also Flux Factory, VCU Arts, NARS Foundation, The Border Project Space and many other art spaces.
