Untitled (Marilyn), 2015

Printed images on aluminum, fabric

As part of a work created specially for Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro, Gonzalez-Foerster appears as Marilyn Monroe in the famous skinny dip scene from her unfinished last movie, Something’s Got to Give (1962), with this connecting us back to the early modern days of the museum and the mid-sixties when Gonzalez-Foerster was born.

Untitled, 1987/2015 (background)
Tennis balls and glass fire protection

In a post-Duchampian act, this was less intended to elevate the everyday but rather to question the hierarchical distinction between high and low. The slightly curved transparent screen on which sides bright tennis balls are spread evoke the artist’s ongoing concern with sites of leisure and play.

Mouchoirs abstraits, 1986/2015 (on the wall)

Fabric handkerchief 

Characteristic of her continuous play with temporal displacements and the subjectivity of experience, the work conflates past and present. In 1986 Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster exhibited 12 mouchoirs abstraits at the Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des beaux-arts in Grenoble.

Photo © Pat Kilgore