Untitled, 1987/2015
Aluminum objects, survival blanket
Characteristic of her continuous play with temporal displacements and the subjectivity of experience, the work conflates past and present. As temporary marker of leisure, the picnic blanket relates to Gonzalez-Foerster’s ongoing preoccupation with urban parks and beaches, in her words, “as places for playing, full of possibilities... It’s not like the city...It’s an open territory.”
Photo © Pat Kilgore