Monica Bonvicini

Power Gender Space

Monica Bonvicini has created a multi-layered, internationally recognised oeuvre of installations, sculptures and drawings, for which she was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and, as recently as 2020, the Oskar Kokoschka Prize in Vienna. This volume now presents two current series of drawings: One continues the series "Hurricanes and Other Catastrophes", which began in 2006 on the occasion of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, and expands the view, which was initially focussed on the sudden destruction caused by the hurricane in New Orleans, to include views of houses that show damage due to long-term climate change. The second series - created during the lockdown - leads into dark grey and pink landscapes dominated by fences, chains and lines of text. The latter contrast with the soft backgrounds and appear astonishingly real and present. Monica Bonvicini has spray-painted words that originally came from Roland Barthes, Judith Butler, Natalie Diaz, Soraya Chemaly or Andrea Dworkin - albeit twisted, shortened or otherwise altered, creating a completely new, poetic dimension: "Weep Me Crude", "Power Joy Humour & Resistance", "I Never Tire", etc.

Exhibition:
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Lover's Material, 10/10/2020 - 30/5/2021