Nicole Nemesi
Relation
Relation (2026)
Under the artist name Nicole Nemesi, I created the short video piece Relation. The work consists of a gradual transition between two still images, where the starting image slowly transforms into the ending image. Rather than presenting two separate figures, the video suggests the persistence of a single woman undergoing change over time. The transformation unfolds smoothly, allowing the viewer to experience continuity within difference: the woman appears altered, yet, as we might hypothesise, she remains the same person.
While Relation, created under the pseudonym Madam Memoticon, explores the possibility that similar or indiscernible figures may be distinct individuals, the Nicole Nemesi work approaches the question of identity from the opposite direction. Here, visual difference emerges within the unfolding of a single entity. Inspired by debates in quantum physics concerning whether certain particles are truly identical or merely indistinguishable yet distinct, the works reflect on the philosophical problem of identity: how much difference can occur while something or someone still qualifies as the same.
The blurry quality of the exhibited work also reflects my interest in metaphysical and logical questions regarding vague properties and relations, including vague boundaries and the potential indeterminacy of identity.
Nicole Nemesi is a Techspressionist artist and PhD candidate who is loosely identical to Madam Memoticon. If MM is the manifesto, NN is the confession: vulnerable yet magnetic, turning wounds into quiet incantations. MM speaks in declarations: sharp, feminist, conceptual. NN whispers in stories: personal, fragile, human. She’s the diarist to MM’s activist. They overlap and intersect; they sometimes dispute and often complete each other. Together they stretch the boundaries between art and biography, persona and person.