update #31
you vainly wanted to see the simple picture
(you can download the update in its original format)
detail of work by barbana bojadzi
from exposition catalogue by galeria continua, 2024
“What interested me at first about video was the layering. There was the projected video and the live performance taking place in front of it, which was being filmed and would also, in turn, be projected, so the audience saw several things simultaneously. I wanted to pile meaning into all those layers”
Joan Jonas
interviewed by Lynne Tillman
24-4-2024, Frieze, Issue 243
joan jonas, they come to us without a word II, 2015
colouring myself, 2024
concept and photo: émile kirsch
colouring: hein duijnstee
frans hals,
de regentessen van het oude mannenhuis (detail), 1664
hein duijnstee, and now, 2023
clair fontaine, replica (a piece of cake), 2022-24
‘CLAIRE FONTAINE is a collective feminist conceptual artist founded by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill in Paris in 2004. Since 2017 she lives and works in Palermo. Her name is inspired by Duchamp’s iconic ready-made, the urinal entitled Fontaine, and a famous brand of French notebooks (Clairefontaine); it defines a space where the biographies of the artist is not directly connected to their artworks allowing their research to become a space of freedom and desubjectivisation. The use of appropriation and hijacking in her work stems from the same intention: not highlighting the excellence of the artist’s unique singularity but activating the forms and the forces within visual culture and underlining their political content.’
from the mennour gallery website
mennour represents claire fontaine
gerhard richter, 7 Scheiben (kartenhaus), 2013