Dominique González-Foerster. An experimental artist based in Paris, Dominique González-Foerster has been exploring since 1990 the different modalities of sensory and cognitive relationship between bodies and spaces, real or fictitious, up to the point of questioning the distance between organic life and work.
Metabolizing literary and cinematographic, architectural and musical, scientific and pop references, Gonzalez-Foerster creates “chambers” and “interiors”, “gardens”, “attractions” and “planets”, with respect to the multiple meanings that these terms take on in the works of Virginia Woolf or Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Brontë sisters or Thomas Pynchon, Joanna Russ or Philip K. Dick. This investigation of spaces extends to a questioning of the implicit neutrality of practices and exhibition spaces. Her mises en espace, “anticipations” and “apparitions” seek to invade the sensory domain of the viewers in order to operate intentional changes in their memory and imagination. Haunted by history and future, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s works become containers where the artist incubates a form of subjectivity that does not yet exist.
Through multiple international exhibitions, short films, productions and concerts, Gonzalez-Foerster’s mutant work contributes to the invention of new technologies of consciousness. Her most recent exhibitions include Martian Dreams Ensemble, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2018); Pynchon Park, Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (MAAT), Lisbon (2017); Costumes & Wishes for the 21st Century, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2017); 1887–2058, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20, Düsseldorf (2016); 1887–2058, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015); Temporama, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (2015).
Metabolizing literary and cinematographic, architectural and musical, scientific and pop references, Gonzalez-Foerster creates “chambers” and “interiors”, “gardens”, “attractions” and “planets”, with respect to the multiple meanings that these terms take on in the works of Virginia Woolf or Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Brontë sisters or Thomas Pynchon, Joanna Russ or Philip K. Dick. This investigation of spaces extends to a questioning of the implicit neutrality of practices and exhibition spaces. Her mises en espace, “anticipations” and “apparitions” seek to invade the sensory domain of the viewers in order to operate intentional changes in their memory and imagination. Haunted by history and future, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s works become containers where the artist incubates a form of subjectivity that does not yet exist.
Through multiple international exhibitions, short films, productions and concerts, Gonzalez-Foerster’s mutant work contributes to the invention of new technologies of consciousness. Her most recent exhibitions include Martian Dreams Ensemble, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2018); Pynchon Park, Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (MAAT), Lisbon (2017); Costumes & Wishes for the 21st Century, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2017); 1887–2058, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20, Düsseldorf (2016); 1887–2058, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015); Temporama, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (2015).
