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Ph: Reto Kaufmann
Monica Bonvicini
200 x 150 cm / 78.7 x 59.1 inches
Framed dimensions:
210 x 160.5 cm / 82.7 x 63.2 inches
The photographic source material is skilfully rendered in hazy spray paint and tempera that oozes down the surface of the paper in thick streams, emphasizing a pervasive feeling of doom throughout the body of work. The series can be seen in lineage of canonical works of contemporary art, such as Dan Graham’s photo series Homes for America (1966-67). In Bonvicini’s case architecture confronts important feminist tropes related to power, labor and the urban environment that are inevitably linked to the collective and individual formation of identity both in the public and private spheres. The artist has stated: “What has interested me for a long time is the fact that architecture always has, in some way, gendered connotations”, and “Home is the place where the first sense of identity is formed. Home is always about memory, too.”
Provenance
Exhibitions
Monica Bonvicini, Hurricanes and Other Catastrophes, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, 2022Publications
(Installation view)
Colin Lang, Monica Bonvicini: Hot like Hell: Cat. Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2021), 17-18.
Colin Lang, Monica Bonvicini: Hot like Hell: Cat. Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2021), 64.
(Installation view)
Monica Bonvicini and Konrad Bitterli, Monica Bonvicini: As Walls Keep Shifting (Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2023), 440-441.