Join us for a Wednesday Walkthrough with Nottingham Trent University BA Fine Art Students. This season, we are presenting Feels Strangely Good, Ya? - the first international institutional solo exhibition of the late Balinese artist I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih “Murni”.

In this walkthrough, Nottingham Trent University BA Fine Art student, artist and curator Anna Li will offer an embodied reading of I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih’s (Murni) art through the politics of representation. Approaching Feels Strangely Good, Ya? from her perspective as a disabled woman artist, Anna will explore how Murni’s radical openness transforms pain into power and desire into resistance. The session will reflect on how exposure and vulnerability become tools to confront social norms and reclaim agency. Through this lens, Murni’s work will emerge as one that speaks a language of honesty, courage, and inclusion, that continues to challenge how we see the body today.

Anna Li is an artist and curator from Odesa, Ukraine, based in Nottingham. Her practice explores the aesthetics and politics of disabled embodiment, drawing on her lived experience as a female wheelchair user and a background in both academic painting and post-Soviet Ukrainian conceptualism.

Anna works across oil painting, video performance, digital media, and social interventions, often setting her own body as a site of inquiry, resistance, and aesthetic experimentation. She is currently studying Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, developing projects with local institutions that bridge disability studies and audience engagement.

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This event will be held in the Galleries. Meet at Reception.

Speakers will use microphones.

This event is wheelchair accessible.

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