Cotton Candy
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Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets
New York, NY
Start:
Aug 1, 2025
End:
Aug 31, 2025
Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am
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Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets
New York, NY
Start:
Aug 1, 2025
End:
Aug 31, 2025
Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am
View Public Programming
Working across sculpture, video, installation, performance, and painting, Bianca Abdi-Boragi creates artworks that often tend towards the absurd, employing found materials, unexpected environments, and humor as an entry point to the avant garde and cultural critiques. Cotton Candy is Abdi-Boragi’s short experimental film featuring a young woman, played by Jonela Ruka, transfixed in front of a mirror, slowly consuming a bouffant of pink spun sugar styled atop her head. Shot in an empty furniture store in Ridgewood, Queens, the endless rows of chandeliers and ornate furnishings mirror the repetition and excess of the protagonist’s compulsive consumption. Abdi-Boragi’s video-performance plays with notions of fulfillment and offers a surrealist, with a touch of Baroque, take on the purgatory of consumerism in a post-colonialist world. “What do we consume, and what consumes us?” asks the artist.
Working across sculpture, video, installation, performance, and painting, Bianca Abdi-Boragi creates artworks that often tend towards the absurd, employing found materials, unexpected environments, and humor as an entry point to the avant garde and cultural critiques. Cotton Candy is Abdi-Boragi’s short experimental film featuring a young woman, played by Jonela Ruka, transfixed in front of a mirror, slowly consuming a bouffant of pink spun sugar styled atop her head. Shot in an empty furniture store in Ridgewood, Queens, the endless rows of chandeliers and ornate furnishings mirror the repetition and excess of the protagonist’s compulsive consumption. Abdi-Boragi’s video-performance plays with notions of fulfillment and offers a surrealist, with a touch of Baroque, take on the purgatory of consumerism in a post-colonialist world. “What do we consume, and what consumes us?” asks the artist.
Support for Midnight Moment is provided in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and the Times Square Advertising Coalition. Midnight Moment is made possible by the Times Square Advertising Coalition, ABC SuperSign, American Eagle, Big Outdoor, Branded Cities, Clear Channel, Coca-Cola, Diversified, Express, Heritage Outdoor Media, Levi's, LG, Line Friends, McDonald's, Microsoft, Midtown Financial, Morgan Stanley, New Tradition, Outfront, Paramount, Prudential, Sensory Interactive, Sephora, Sherwood Equities, Show + Tell, Silvercast, Swatch, TSX, and T-Mobile.
Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets
New York, NY
Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am
Video still courtesy of the artist.
Bianca Abdi-Boragi is a French/Amazigh-American interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Paris, France, who received her BFA from ENSAPC (Paris-Cergy) and her MFA from Yale School of Art, Sculpture in 2017. Abdi-Boragi has been living in New York since 2010. Recently in residency at Pioneer Works her shows have been featured on Hyperallergic, Artnet, Vogue, Artsy and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. Solo exhibitions include the Border Project Space Gallery, SPRING/BREAK Art Show and CADAF Art Fair, she has exhibited with Ceysson & Bénètière gallery, GHOSTMACHINE, Central Park Tower's Penthouse, the Flux Factory, Heaven Gallery Chicago, the Immigrant Artist Biennial, NARS Foundation, VCU Arts, NURTUREart Gallery, Chashama Gallery, Field Project Gallery, Galerie Protégé, The Clemente Soto Velez Center NY, throughout the United States and internationally and has screened art films at Anthology Film Archive, UnionDocs, Video Revival, NY, the Whitney Humanity Center, and Loria Center, New Haven, CT. Abdi-Boragi was the recipient of the JUNCTURE Fellowship in Art and International Human Rights from the Yale Law School and was previously in residency at NARS Foundation, MASS MoCA's studios, the Centquatre, Paris, France, Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany, CalArts, Los Angeles.
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Bianca Abdi-Boragi
Bianca Abdi-Boragi is a French/Amazigh-American interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Paris, France, who received her BFA from ENSAPC (Paris-Cergy) and her MFA from Yale School of Art, Sculpture in 2017. Abdi-Boragi has been living in New York since 2010. Recently in residency at Pioneer Works her shows have been featured on Hyperallergic, Artnet, Vogue, Artsy and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. Solo exhibitions include the Border Project Space Gallery, SPRING/BREAK Art Show and CADAF Art Fair, she has exhibited with Ceysson & Bénètière gallery, GHOSTMACHINE, Central Park Tower's Penthouse, the Flux Factory, Heaven Gallery Chicago, the Immigrant Artist Biennial, NARS Foundation, VCU Arts, NURTUREart Gallery, Chashama Gallery, Field Project Gallery, Galerie Protégé, The Clemente Soto Velez Center NY, throughout the United States and internationally and has screened art films at Anthology Film Archive, UnionDocs, Video Revival, NY, the Whitney Humanity Center, and Loria Center, New Haven, CT. Abdi-Boragi was the recipient of the JUNCTURE Fellowship in Art and International Human Rights from the Yale Law School and was previously in residency at NARS Foundation, MASS MoCA's studios, the Centquatre, Paris, France, Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany, CalArts, Los Angeles.
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Bianca Abdi-Boragi
Bianca Abdi-Boragi is a French/Amazigh-American interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Paris, France, who received her BFA from ENSAPC (Paris-Cergy) and her MFA from Yale School of Art, Sculpture in 2017. Abdi-Boragi has been living in New York since 2010. Recently in residency at Pioneer Works her shows have been featured on Hyperallergic, Artnet, Vogue, Artsy and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. Solo exhibitions include the Border Project Space Gallery, SPRING/BREAK Art Show and CADAF Art Fair, she has exhibited with Ceysson & Bénètière gallery, GHOSTMACHINE, Central Park Tower's Penthouse, the Flux Factory, Heaven Gallery Chicago, the Immigrant Artist Biennial, NARS Foundation, VCU Arts, NURTUREart Gallery, Chashama Gallery, Field Project Gallery, Galerie Protégé, The Clemente Soto Velez Center NY, throughout the United States and internationally and has screened art films at Anthology Film Archive, UnionDocs, Video Revival, NY, the Whitney Humanity Center, and Loria Center, New Haven, CT. Abdi-Boragi was the recipient of the JUNCTURE Fellowship in Art and International Human Rights from the Yale Law School and was previously in residency at NARS Foundation, MASS MoCA's studios, the Centquatre, Paris, France, Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany, CalArts, Los Angeles.
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Bianca Abdi-Boragi
