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Natalia Ivanova & Oskar Malone Pëyak
Duality Is Overrated: Act I, 2022
Single-channel video, color, sound
2 min. 24 sec.
Duality Is Overrated: Act I is a poetic meditation on the binaries that have long shaped the ways we see, desire, identify, and understand one another.
The work asks what happens when we interrupt those inherited patterns: cut, break, reframe the gaze, and release the desire to possess either/or.
Rather than choosing one side or becoming legible as the other, the work lingers in the unstable space between. A space where oppositions begin to dissolve, perception slips, and identity is no longer required to resolve itself.
Act I is an invitation to stay with the in-between, to inhabit the now before it hardens into another category.
Natalia Ivanova is a Bulgarian-American artist, writer, curator, and cultural critic based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice moves between moving image, writing, curatorial projects, and experimental forms of art production. Her work explores perception, identity, desire, systems of value, and the spaces between opposing structures, often questioning the binaries through which contemporary experience is framed.
Say hello// @andnat @art_agency_reframed
https://artagencyreframed.com/
Oskar Malone Pëyak is a multidisciplinary art worker and visual arts educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His practice moves fluidly between image-making, video art, installation, mixed media, two-dimensional drawing, and archival exploration—often reflecting on memory, identity, and the poetics of place. Oskar earned an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and has studied independently under influential artists including Maria Magda Campos Pons, Mary Ellen Mark, John Powell, and Sarah Sze.
He has shaped a practice rooted in both intimacy and experimentation with a deep respect for storytelling, materiality, and the quiet resonance of overlooked histories.
memory as architecture//
the grittier cross-elements between the atlantic and pacific regions
from under the scorching welts by whippings from the antebellum scorned sun
to the piers of a piteous city fog of unsounded mists and broken dreams.
say hello//@shiveringnerve
SENSUM: Peripheral / Périphérique
Opening: Thursday, September 24, 6–8 PM
Artifact Projects
155 Suffolk St., New York, NY 10002
ENSUM: Peripheral / Périphérique
I’m very happy to be part of SENSUM: Peripheral / Périphérique, a curated video installation bringing together the work of an extraordinary group of artists at Artifact Projects in New York.
The exhibition features Samantha Combs, Colette Copeland, Maria Frödl, Delphine Gauly, Natalia Ivanova, Muriel Louveau, Anna Novakov, Eszter Sziksz, Juliette Vivier, Astrid Walenta, and Katrin Woelger.
My contribution is Duality Is Overrated: Act I (2022), a short film created in collaboration with Oakland based artist Oskar Malone Pëyak.
The work emerged from our ongoing Duality Is Overrated project, developed in Oakland as an exploration of the unstable space between oppositions and the possibility of existing beyond fixed binaries.
Through intimacy, architecture, movement, and fragmented cinematic direction, Act I questions the ways we instinctively frame experience through oppositions: self and other, light and shadow, angel and devil, desire and restraint. Repeated cues to “cut, move, reframe” become both a cinematic device and a way of thinking about how we construct, perceive, and reconstruct relationships.
At its center is a question that continues to resonate throughout the project: Can we care for something beyond desire, possession, or the binaries through which we are taught to understand one another?
I’m especially happy to see this work presented alongside such an exciting group of artists and within SENSUM, a project devoted to expanding how we experience moving image, perception, and the sensorial.
SENSUM: Peripheral / Périphérique
Opening: Thursday, September 24, 6–8 PM
Natalia Ivanova & Oskar Malone Pëyak, Duality Is Overrated: Act I, 2022
Single-channel video, color, sound
2 min. 24 sec.
Artifact Projects
155 Suffolk St., New York, NY 10002
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Philosophy
Art Agency Reframed is an off-market advisory and curatorial practice based in Chinatown, New York. Working within an avant-garde lineage of experimental cultural production, the agency provides strategic positioning, conceptual direction, and relational access for artists operating across institutional and independent contexts.
Art Agency Reframed, New Yo
Sensing Summer: Corporate Takeover
Sensing Summer is a group two-weeks corporate take over of the senses at Art Agency Reframed.
Exhibition dates: Aug 14-28, 2026
By Appointments Only.
Art Agency Reframed is located at 50E Broadway, Room 201, New York, NY 10002. The Office is private.
Critical & Generative Intervention
Art Agency Reframed is the curatorial and advisory practice of Natalia Ivanova, built from two decades of working across the cultural field as international art agent, curator, writer and cultural critic, entrepreneur, executive director of art institutions, fundraising, development and branding guru, and theatre and film producer.
Art Agency Reframed operates from the understanding that artistic labor exceeds what is visible in exhibitions, portfolios, or CVs. Much of the work that shapes cultural production remains informal, affective, logistical, and relational. The Agency names this labor, works within it, and uses it as material.
Representation here is not a managerial authority but active alliance. Through long-term relationships, strategic counsel, introductions, writing, production, and conceptual direction, the Agency functions as an extension of the artist’s capacity to act within complex cultural systems.
INNAGURAL EXHIBITION: Reframing
An inter-sensory installation by Dadais Americanus. Essay as blotter art. Ingestion as politics. On view by appointment.
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50 East Broadway · Room 201 · Chinatown
