Senga Nengudi

body as elastic form

Senga Nengudi is an American artist associated with the Black Arts Movement, post-minimalism, and performance. Her “R.S.V.P.” works use stretched pantyhose filled with sand, activated through dance and improvisation, highlighting elasticity, vulnerability, and embodied space. Nengudi’s practice extends into drawing, installation, and ritual-based collaboration.

Her work merges material experimentation with social and spiritual inquiry.

Senga Nengudi is an American artist known for nylon-and-sand sculptures that explore gesture, body, and relational space.

Senga Nengudi is an American sculptor and performance artist known for stretched nylon works activated by movement and bodily gesture.

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