Index Code:

ART-STA-NEN

Orgin:

USA

Field Notes:

Knotted pantyhose and sand filled forms sag between walls columns and performers

Defining Moment:

The R.S.V.P. works where gesture remains visible as stretched elastic after the body withdraws

Senga Nengudi

(

1943–

)

seng-ga nen-goo-dee

Nengudi built a world where pantyhose, sand, and stretch become choreography — material responding to gravity like living muscle.

Her work clarifies movement as spatial tension.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Senga Nengudi’s work, this approach appears where elasticity activates tension.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Senga Nengudi’s work, this approach appears where elasticity activates tension.

Material Intelligence

Material behavior actively determines structural decisions.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Space

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Post-Minimalism

Minimal systems loosen through process, material, and contingency.

Process Art

Work is defined by making, duration, and transformation.

Senga Nengudi

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

In Dialogue

Senga Nengudi

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue